Quotes about Violent
The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.
- Marcus Aurelius
Oh, it's a fine life, the life of the gutter. It's real: it's warm: it's violent: you can feel it through the thickest skin: you can taste it and smell it without any training or any work. Not like Science and Literature and Classical Music and Philosophy and Art.
- George Bernard Shaw
Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.
- George W. Bush
For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.
- Ayn Rand
For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.
- Ayn Rand
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
- Ronald Reagan
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.
- Mahatma Gandhi
ALL SAYING MUST BE BALANCED BY UNSAYING, and knowing must be humbled by unknowing. Without this balance, religion invariably becomes arrogant, exclusionary, and even violent.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.
- Elie Wiesel
Luther, the hero of Worms, the champion of the sacred rights of conscience, was, in words, the most violent, but in practice, the least intolerant, among the Reformers.
- Philip Schaff
Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.
- Philip Yancey
There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.
- Eleanor Roosevelt