Violent Quotes - Page 3

• Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal prisoners are serving time for non-violent crimes.) Most competent and qualified kindergarden teachers can tell you who the 5 kids are in his or her class likely to wind up in prison 15 - 20 years from now.

  Howard Dean

  Running, Teacher, Kids

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• I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

  Strong, People, Support

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• Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon our European soil and, as one of countless human beings, I can't claim any special place for myself except that, as an Austrian, a Jew, writer, humanist and pacifist, I have always been precisely in those places where the effects of the thrusts were most violent.

  Stefan Zweig

  Special, Upheaval, Soil

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• Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.

  Philip Yancey

  Kingdoms, Revolution, Kingdom Of God

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.69, Harper Collins

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• It was violent, it was brutal, and it got down right uglyyy!

  Shawn Michaels

  Wwe, Brutal

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• Los blancos han controlado Nueva Orleans con dinero y armas, los negros con magia y música, y aunque ha habido un trasfondo constante de admiración mutua, un mestizaje de culturas sin precedentes en ninguna otra ciudad estadounidense, del Sur o del Norte; aunque ha prevalecido una interfaz de lo más alegre y fascinante, la ira negra y el miedo blanco han persistido, dotando a la continua y ostensiblemente integrada fete champetre de idiosincrasias volátiles y a veces violentas.

  Tom Robbins

  Miedo, Arma, Ciudades

  Tom Robbins (2003). "Perfume de Jitterbug", p.360, Bantam

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• No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain
  amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.

  Joe Rogan

  Running, Stress, Fighting

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• National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

  Frantz Fanon

  People, Restoration, Renaissance

  The Wretched of the Earth "Concerning Violence" (1961) (translation by Constance Farrington)

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• No one is suggesting that [violent video games are] the only reason they went out and committed those horrific acts, but was it a tipping point? Was it something that pushed them over the edge? Was it a factor in that? Perhaps. That's a really big deal.

  Jim Steyer

  Reason, Committed, Over The Edge

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• But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising - up, up, higher, higher - then falling, crashing, swirling into chaos, passing away. I breathed deeply. I tried to breathe space between my thoughts, find the space between the anger.

  Yoguis Jaimal

  Fall, Rising Up, Space

  Mu Soeng, Jaimal Yogis (2010). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because of a real thing: the actual, concrete decline in violent crime that started in the early 90s and which appears to be permanent. America is simply a safer place than it used to be, and looks set to stay that way.

  Kevin Drum

  Real, America, Looks

  "Our Obsession With Mass Incarceration May Finally Be Ebbing" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 2, 2015.

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• More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Perfection, Progress, Execution

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• Llevar el espíritu de paz a la guerra es una política débil y cruel. Cuando un caso extremo exige ese remedio que es en su propia naturaleza el más violento, y que, en tales casos, es un remedio sólo porque es violento, es ocioso pensar en mitigar y diluir. La guerra lánguida no puede hacer nada que la negociación o la sumisión hagan mejor: y actuar según cualquier otro principio no es ahorrar sangre y dinero, sino despilfarrarlos.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Paz, Guerra, Pensamiento

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• Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.

  Philip Jenkins

  Islamic, Scripture, Quran

  "Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?". "All Things Considered" with Barbara Bradley Hagerty, www.npr.org. March 18, 2010.

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• Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Children, Other Worlds, Feelings

  "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1903.

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• This is a weird feeling in my life I have to deal with, not being a violent man anymore when my whole life's reputation was built on being extremely violent. I just don't know how to deal with that right now. I don't even go to strip clubs no more. I don't know who I am sometimes, but I am not the guy I used to be. I'm not an angel or anything. I'm still lascivious, periodically. I'm just looking for some balance in my life.

  Mike Tyson

  Angel, Men, Who I Am

  "Tyson's love for the fight game turns to disgust" by Dan Rafael, www.espn.com. June 11, 2005.

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• When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was one of the great moral crusades in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, in more recent times it has become all too much like those it opposed, demanding racial double standards and even condoning verbal and violent attacks against members of other races.

  Thomas Sowell

  Agency, Rights, Race

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• Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government in violation of the Smith Act and which took orders directly from Moscow.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Party, Government, Order

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• To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.

  Michael Z. Williamson

  White, Racist, Half

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• I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.

  John Marsden

  Attitude, Selfish, War

  John Marsden (2010). “While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles 1: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.60, Pan Australia

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• Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Used, Ends

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• En mi humilde opinión, no cooperar con el mal es un deber tanto como cooperar con el bien. Pero en el pasado, la no cooperación se ha expresado deliberadamente con violencia hacia el malhechor. Me esfuerzo por mostrar a mis compatriotas que la no cooperación violenta sólo multiplica el mal y que el mal sólo puede sostenerse mediante la violencia. Retirar el apoyo al mal exige abstenerse por completo de la violencia. La no violencia implica someterse voluntariamente a la pena por no cooperar con el mal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humble, Past, Evil

  Courtroom statement, Ahmadabad, India, 23 Mar. 1922

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• La fuerza para matar no es esencial para la autodefensa; uno debe tener la fuerza para morir. Cuando un hombre está completamente preparado para morir, ni siquiera deseará ofrecer violencia. De hecho, puedo afirmar como una proposición evidente que el deseo de matar es inversamente proporcional al deseo de morir. Y la historia está repleta de ejemplos de hombres que, al morir con el valor y la compasión en los labios, convirtieron los corazones de sus violentos oponentes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Corazón, Hombres, Compasión

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• ... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Understanding, Destruction, Threat

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• A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear, refusing to pay taxes, by going to jail, or by taking another man's crops or squatting on his land. By none of these ways can he free himself; no, nor by paying his debts with money; only by obedience to his own genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Jail, Self

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