“ Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
“ If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country. ”
- Malcolm X- Copy
“ When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. ”
- Margery Allingham- Copy
“ We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
“ It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. ”
- Paul Fussell- Copy
“ Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
“ I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ”
- James Madison- Copy
“ And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms. ”
- William Bradford- Copy
“ Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. ”
- Marilyn Manson- Copy
“ You will always find strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
“ There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
“ A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across. ”
- Irvin S. Cobb- Copy
“ Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
“ Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea. ”
- Marianne Williamson- Copy
“ Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
“ Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
“ I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. ”
- Georges Bataille- Copy
“ I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. ”
- Edward Bond- Copy
“ In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes. ”
- Susan Kaufman- Copy
“ Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
“ Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. ”
- Daniel Defoe- Copy
“ Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
“ Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
“ So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
“ The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary. ”
- Francis W. Newman- Copy
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