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“I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my trouble with the word. But ferocious - indeed, I'll take it. And yes, poetry does need a bit of ferocity. Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity - the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.”

Violence Trouble Violent Complexity Negativity

Author:Alex Lemon

“People who oppose violence often defend strikes, forgetting that strikes are historically every bit as violent as riots. They recast history so that strikes were always this ascetic refusal rather than open warfare with private or national military forces, where many, many people died so as to have some possibility of a decent work life, affordable housing, protections - the most practical goals we can imagine.”

People Goal Forget Imagine Violence Military Possibility Protection Violent Decent Riot Affordable

Author:Joshua Clover

“Food is a complicated subject for me. Food brings joy, satisfaction, and conflict. Eating disorders plague my family. Their consequences have been painful, expensive, violent, and deadly. You haven't lived till you've watched a woman die of starvation.”

Joy Conflict Eating Consequence My Family Painful Complicated Violent Plague Eating Disorder

Author:Myriam Gurba

“There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.”

Sometimes Wanted Father Tears Dad Benefits Alcohol Violent Motivated Alcoholics Father Son

Author:Dean Koontz

“Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.”

Men Games Sports Car Building Men And Women Entertainment Violent Video Airplane 4th Of July July Exploding

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets ugly. My mom sits upstairs watching the Bears game; he sits in the basement. They can't watch it together. Football's a violent anger in our family dynamic.”

Whole Together Guy Games Sides Watches Fans Football Mom Bears Ugly My Mom Violent Our Family Basements Vikings Upstairs Packers Stepdads Packer Fans

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.”

“I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids.”

Believe Kids Film Young Games Violence Good Things Careful Violent Video Violent Video Games

Author:Spike Lee

“Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.”

Mean Made Ends Fall Powerful Moral Ears Violent Appeals Destructive Mechanism Acceptable Justification Deaf Portraying Disengagement Deaf Ears

Author:Albert Bandura

“I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.”

Hands Violent Schizophrenic

Author:Lester Bangs

“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”

“I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.”

Ifs Men Mean Problem Black Violence Solutions Violent Nonviolence Non Violence Problems And Solutions Solution To A Problem Postponing Violent Man

Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'”

“Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.”

Want Has Beens Games Violent Video Garbage Toss Nuisance Garbage Cans Violent Video Games

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”

Believe Faces Literature I Believe Violent Contradiction Contradicting

Book:Violent silence: celebrating Georges Bataille

Source: Violent silence: celebrating Georges Bataille

“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.”

Should Passion Situation Horror Ears Painful Violent Charm Rock N Roll Disgusting Nevertheless

Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.”

Country States United Effort United States Clear Violence Risk Groups Protect Roots Let Me Terrorism Violent Ideology Luxury Extremism Homegrown

Author:Janet Napolitano

“Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.”

America Worst Crime Citizens Highest Gun Rate Violent Gun Control Lowest Violent Crimes Crime Rates Gun Safety Armed Citizens

Author:Ted Nugent

“Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.”

Wells Children Home America Nations Social Causes Behavior Chaos Educational Violent Far Away Topics Scandal Alienation Sociologists Bad Parenting

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'”

Inspirational Play Violent Scarface Shakespeare's Plays

Author:Al Pacino

“The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.”

Firsts Kind Literature Creatures Hunger Lust Violent Preserves Latter Appetite Perpetual

Book:The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index

Source: The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index

“Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.”

War Sides Middle East Violent Middle East Violent Acts

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”

“Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.”

Law Greater Crime Citizens Congress Violent Abiding Deterrent Violent Crimes Law Abiding Citizen

Author:Rick Perry

“Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.”

Way Violent Empowering Empowering Women

Author:Steven Pinker

“By all measures men are the more violent gender.”

Men Gender Violent

Author:Steven Pinker

“Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.”

States Violent

Author:Steven Pinker

“We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.”

World Violence Creatures Violent Cognitive

Author:Steven Pinker

“I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.”

Thinking Years Force Class Struggle Progress Violence Majors Built Violent Ideology Communism Class Struggle

Author:Steven Pinker

“A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.”

People Ifs Self Government Force Essentials Fairs Police Court Violent Decent Bully Defence Psychopath Police Force Self Defence Court System Hotheads

Author:Steven Pinker

“Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who might otherwise support the movement.”

Might Enjoy Party Enemy Support Movement Thirds Violent Tactics Thug Pretext Retaliation Mayhem Third Parties

Author:Steven Pinker

“God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.”

Men World Heart Earth Nations Men And Women Violent International Peace World Peace Day International Peace Day

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.”

Doe Shows Artist Literature Violence Modern Violent Crafts Live By Strife Idolatry

Author:Ezra Pound

“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.”

Men Politics Conservative Scary Violent Frightening Inflation Robbers Muggers Armed Robbery

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.”

World Government Political Ultimate Aim Islam Violent Bent Domination Political Systems World Domination

Author:Pat Robertson

“To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.”

Humans Mean Has Beens Feelings Human Beings Powerful Greater Emotional Presses Violent Urges Conquest Inferiority Agitation Being Mean

Author:Alfred Adler

“I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.”

Want Historical Violent Epic Medieval

Author:Eli Roth

“I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.”

Way Made Hard Feelings Deals Shame Violent Backgrounds Abandonment Realised

Author:Mickey Rourke

“One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.”

Strange Negative Violent Regimes Publicity Strange Things Glare

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.”

People Christianity Violence Prove Violent Torture Crusades Inquisition Acts Of Violence

Author:Salman Rushdie

“We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.”

People Self Subjects Violent Reactions Worried Frightened

Author:Salman Rushdie

“All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.”

Feelings Literature Effects Produce Judging Violent Impression Pathetic Fake People Fallacy Falseness

Book:Selections and Essays

Source: Selections and Essays

“The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.”

Writing Trade Violent Obsession Authorship Indestructible

Author:George Sand

“No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.”

Passion Strong Grows Silence Darkness Built Plant Violent Strong Passion

Book:The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs

Source: The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs

“Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.”

Ifs Thinking Should Shows Problem Body Funny Comedy Humorous Witty Violent Shirts Over It Hilarious T Shirt Laundry

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.”

People Thinking Love Sometimes Age Passion Ready Messages Anger Violent My Passion Delivering Misinterpreted

Author:Charlie Sheen

“Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?”

Ifs Want Has Beens Consciousness Car Racism Tragedy Wake Up Awakening Violent Horrible Tragic Crash Car Crash

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“I have never been in a violent movie or television show.”

Shows Television Violent Television Shows Violent Movies

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.”

People Thinking Writing Persons Has Beens Done Results Fiction Violent Things To Do Disguise Horrific

Author:Zadie Smith

“I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.”

Two Nations Community Crime Projects Raised University Violent Finest Housing Attorney Our Community Assistants Bronx Violent Crimes Prosecuting Public Housing

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

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