Violent Quotes - Page 37

• When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

  George Etherege

  Passion, Torture, Endure

  'The Man of Mode' (1676) act 2, sc. 2

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• So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping.

  Michael Ian Black

  Song, Fatherhood, Arms

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• Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

  Sam Farr

  Acceptance, Government, People

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• Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive; the place occupied by my figures, the empty space around them, the proportions, everything has its share.

  Henri Matisse

  Passion, Glowing, Expression

  "Notes d'un Peintre". "La Grande Revue", as translated by Jack Flam in "Matisse on Art" (1995), December 25, 1908.

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• Art and education may refine the taste, but they cannot purify the heart and regenerate the individual.  His (Christ’s) words were simple yet profound.  And they shook people, provoking either happy acceptance or violent refection.  People were never the same after listening to him….The people who followed Him were unique in their generation.  They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up.  The world has never been the same.

  Billy Graham

  Art, Acceptance, Unique

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• I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Running, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. January 8, 2009.

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• Well, I woke up one morning around Christmas, went as far as the shops, and when I got to the corner I felt this violent pain in me left leg. I mentioned it to my daughter and she took me instantly to the hospital. It turned out it was vasculitis. In other words, you can have your leg off.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Daughter, Morning, Pain

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• Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them.

  Joseph Henry

  Science, Technology, Apples

  Joseph Henry (1972). “The Princeton years: January 1841 - December 1843”

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• NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Abhorrent, Needs

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• Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make the other side suffer.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Two, Enemy

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• As NVC replaces our old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of judgment and criticism. We come to perceive ourselves and others, as well as our intentions and relationships, in a new light. Resistance, defensiveness, and violent reactions are minimized.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Light, Criticism

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• Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart

  Theophile Gautier

  Heart, Earth, Wonder

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• Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul. The world presses in upon me with all sorts of pressures, pleas, and pretences. My own corruption is violent, tumultuous, enticing, and entangling. As it conceives sin, it wars within me and against me. Occasions and opportunities for temptation are innumerable. No wonder I do not know how deeply involved I have been with sin. Therefore, on God alone will I rely for my keeping. I will continually look to Him.

  John Owen

  Powerful, War, Heart

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• When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, then society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Hate, Men

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• The English are potentially very aggressive, very violent

  Jack Straw

  Aggressive

  " 'Fair and effective' Straw lays down the law" by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2000.

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• Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Essence, Worst Enemy

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• I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don't think there's going to be any violent revolution about the whole thing anywhere. Of course, it looks like it every once in a while. You hear about it on television and in newspapers: riots here and there. But that is a passing phase.

  Erskine Caldwell

  Acceptance, Thinking, Rights

  Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.

  Chris Hedges

  Violence, Language, Speak

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• How easy it is to forgive and loose the most violent offender, when in tears, they repent. How difficult it is forgiving our own self, for the eyes of our reflection will always expose our untold sins.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Eye, Reflection, Self

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• You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we’re going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.

  Paul Krugman

  Hate, Past, Violent Acts

  "Assassination Attempt In Arizona". krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. January 8, 2011.

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• The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science

  Werner Heisenberg

  Moving On, Cutting, Feelings

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• I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

  James Q. Wilson

  Believe, Pay, Crime

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1, 1995.

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• If anything I consider myself non-violent. I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

  Rick James

  Love, Peace, Eras

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• The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste

  James F. Cooper

  Art, Military, Preparation

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• The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so much on them. In America's black communities, where the goodies have been flowing for decades, rather than seeing improvements in terms of upward mobility, we are seeing deteriorating family structure, increases in violent crimes, growing poverty, and growing dependence. Even with such a blatant record of failure, there is slavish devotion to the elite class who continue to promise more goodies in exchange for votes.

  Benjamin Carson

  Class, America, Community

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