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“A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.”

Has Beens Produce Fit Laughter Violent Reactions Excess Plato

Source: The Republic

“Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.”

May Dangerous Crime Politician Police Violent Soccer Threatening

“It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s, which has also been a period of average warming. So, if anything, global warming causes FEWER tornado outbreaks...not more. In other words, more violent tornados would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling,' not 'global warming.'”

Ifs Wells Energy Strong Causes Known Environment Periods Activity Climate Change Average Violent Weather Global Warming Statistics Fewer Flood Well Known Drought Tornadoes Cooling Outbreaks

Author:Roy Spencer

“Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults”

Giving Children War Hate Force Expression Becoming Adults Hatred Slavery Instruments Killing Soldier Violent Compelled Child Soldier

Author:Olara Otunnu

“When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.”

Love Reason Inspiration Form Desire Pleasure Influence Inspire Judgment Moved Violent Acquire Rejected Kindred Surnames

Author:Socrates

“Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the cage fighting equivalent of a police procedural: violent, gaudy, and packing heat.”

Night Fighting Dark Cities Police Blue Train Violent Heat Bombs Zero Cages Thrillers Packing Gaudy Madhouses Dark City

Author:Trent Jamieson

“If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.”

Ifs Bravery Violent Impulse Guidance Instruction Daring Fierce

Book:Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works

Source: Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works

“All I see is sissies in magazines smiling... Whatever happened to wildin' out and being violent? Whatever happened to catching a good, old-fashioned, passionate ass whoopin'? And getting your shoes, coat and your hat tooken?”

Happened Shoes Passionate Hip Hop Rap Violent Ass Magazines Hats Coats Old Fashioned Catching Sissy

Author:Eminem

“The poor get worked, the rich get richer, The world gets worse, do you get the picture? The poor gets dead, the rich get depressed, The ugly get mad, the pretty get stressed. The ugly get violent, the pretty get gone, The old get stiff, the young get stepped on. Whoever told you that "it was all good" lied, So throw your fists up if you not satisfied.”

Ifs World Young Poor Gone Rich Mad Hip Hop Ugly Rap Violent Satisfied Fists Lied Stressed Get Rich

Author:J-Live

“We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.”

Has Beens Self Culture Black Attitude Youth Drug Behavior Prison Hip Hop Violent Hips Destructive Hops Self Destructive Demeaning

Author:Jason Whitlock

“We want the clear facts to be reported that we, according to the FBI, have a lower violent crime rate than Atlanta, or Houston, or Dallas, or Miami or San Antonio. To some extent, the perception that's been created is much greater than the reality.”

Want Facts Reality Clear Greater Crime Perception Rate Violent Fbi Miami Dallas Houston Atlanta Antonio Violent Crimes Crime Rates San Antonio

Author:Marc Morial

“Juice cleansing has been all the rage for some time. And I used the word 'rage' advisedly; one must push a violent flood of liquidised vegetables and fruit through one's system for at least three days in order to perform a 'cleanse.'”

Has Beens Used Order Three Fruit Rage Violent Vegetables Flood Juice Cleansing

Author:Sloane Crosley

“The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.”

Persons Action Science Brain Boys Paper Violent Agents Cells Burning Smoke Substance Permanent Nerves Cigarette Rapids Uncontrollable Narcotics Degeneration

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And to young people from violent homes, I say: pray and forgive. And again, even to the single mother with no family support: pray and forgive.”

People Home Young Mother Asks Prayer Answers Support Struggle Advice Praying Couple Married Forgiving Violent Ask Me Married Couples Single Mother Family Support

Author:Mother Teresa

“When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.”

Thinking Men Way Believe Girl Grows Boys Roles Growing Up Violence Broken Models Treats Males Accepted Violent Role Models Domestic Violence Broken Family

Author:Jim Costa

“Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.”

Knows Needs Talking Violence Walking Shame Partners Violent Trapped Domestic Violence Abusive Walking Out

Author:Kate Thornton

“When my kids were in preschool, I was part of a carpooling group. One mother sometimes showed up with bruises on her body. She always had an excuse. Then one morning, she didn't show up. Later, I learned she'd fled a violent marriage. I've always thought, If only I'd known, maybe I could have helped.”

Ifs Sometimes Shows Body Kids Mother Known Morning Violence Groups Excuse Violent Domestic Violence Bruises Preschool

Author:Patty Murray

“You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.”

Ifs Character Home Action Funny Stuff Violent Supposed To Be Tone Me Alone

Author:David R. Ellis

“In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.”

Humans Kind Book Real America Human Beings Enemy Fantasy Violence Citizens Glory Fellows Males Wave Terror Selfish Violent Expenses Nurse Plague Bios

Author:David Brin

“The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.”

Black Silence Laughter Violent

Author:Jean Cocteau

“The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue.”

Long Reality Happenings Violent Minorities Ireland Nevertheless Northern Ireland Overdue

Author:Seamus Heaney

“I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable.”

Source: Shamrock Tea

“I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.”

Feels Film Violence Scene Comfortable Violent Not Sure

Author:Jacques Audiard

“It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs. ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.”

Persons Has Beens Action Law Church Objects Speech Deserve Dignity Violent Treatment Pastor Homosexual Malice In-laws Condemnation

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have them, as though clothed with someone else's garmentBut even before men we must, with the same love, render them service against their detractors and those who are violent toward them; for this is what Christ did for us.”

Men Christ Education Quality Violent Behalf Same Love

Author:Martin Luther

“I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary.”

People Ifs Mean Use America Culture Black Violence Taught Violent Oppression Black People Pie Cherries Cherry Pie

Author:H. Rap Brown

“Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the more marked and more violent the disease. We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic affliction with another supervening disease, and prescribe for the illness we wish to cure, especially if chronic, a drug with power to provoke another, artificial disease, as similar as possible, and the former disease will be cured: fight like with like.”

Ifs Should Humans Sometimes Body Fighting Wish Drug Disease Stronger Illness Violent Cures Former Characteristics Artificial Provoking Affliction Human Body

Author:Samuel Hahnemann

“Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based on freedom of the individual, without the intervention of the gendarme. For this reason we are the enemies of capitalism which depends on the protection of the gendarme to oblige workers to allow themselves to be exploited--or even to remain idle and go hungry when it is not in the interest of the bosses to exploit them. We are therefore enemies of the State which is the coercive violent organization of society.”

Source: Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta

“Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on.”

Ifs Men World Trying Self Would Be Moving Lost Growth Love Is Break Teaching He Man Self Love Commitment Labor Refuse Caring Violent Gestures How To Love Love Again Labor Of Love

Author:Bell Hooks

“The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.”

World Ideas Differences Slavery Complexes Complicated Violent Native

Author:Amiri Baraka

“Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen the British really coming by my house looking for it. And besides, the right to bear arms is not an absolute right anyway, as New York's Sullivan Law proves. We talk about ourselves as a violent society, and some of that is right and some of it is claptrap. But I think if you took away the guns, and I mean really take away the guns, not what Congress is doing now, you would see that violent society diminish considerably.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Said Law House Havens New York Arms Bears Prove Gun Absolutes Congress British Violent Amendments Diminish Second Amendment Right To Bear Arms

Author:Roger Rosenblatt

“To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.”

Heart Loses Son Circumstances Burden Violent My Son Violent Death

Author:Brian Jones

“The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.”

Friendship Friends Violent Emo Emo Love

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)”

Art Style Painting Photograph Technique Violent Dictionary

Author:Gerhard Richter

“The affairs of God are accomplished little by little and almost imperceptibly. The Spirit of God is neither violent nor hasty. He does all things in His time.”

Littles Doe Spirit All Things Affair Saint Violent Accomplished Spirit Of God Hasty

Author:St. Vincent

“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.”

Passion Grows Can Do Endure Violent Best Things Torture Lingering Diseased Love Grows Violent Death

Author:George Etherege

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

Song Arms Hearing Wide Violent Reactions Horrible Ass Creeds Fatherhood Corny Weeping Uncontrollable Arms Wide Open

Author:Michael Ian Black

“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.”

People Helping Government Culture Existence Principles Acceptance International Violent Diverse Non Violent International Peace Systems Of Government Peace Corps Diverse Cultures

Author:Sam Farr

“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.”

People World Heart May Art Individual Sides Christ Simple Generations Acceptance Listening Taste Unique Profound Violent Provoking Upside Down World Upside Down

Author:Billy Graham

“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.”

People Thinking Should Running Kids Age Games Stuff Realizing Consequence Violent Video Shooting Appropriate Realistic

Author:Darren Aronofsky

“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.”

Wells Pain Left Felt Morning Daughter Corners Legs Violent Shops My Daughter Hospitals

Author:Beryl Bainbridge

“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.”

Ifs Mind Science Technology Study Effects Violent Atmosphere Apples Sympathetic Contention Meteorology

Book:The Princeton years: January 1841 - December 1843

Source: The Princeton years: January 1841 - December 1843

“I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.”

Wells I Can Real Film Real Life Violent Because I Can Violent Films

Author:Park Chan-wook

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

Needs Action Behinds Communication Violent Tragic Nonviolent Communication Abhorrent

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“While we may not consider the way we talk to be 'violent,' our words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or for ourselves.”

Way May Pain Hurt Communication Violent Nonviolent Communication Our Words Hurt And Pain

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“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.”

Firsts Two Action Suffering Sides Enemy Communication Intention Violent Two Things Nonviolent Communication

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“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.”

Wells Light Faces Communication Judgment Criticism Intention Patterns Violent Reactions Resistance Perceive Attacking Nonviolent Communication Defensiveness Withdrawing

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“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”

Heart Earth Wonder Break My Heart Violent Furious Breaking My Heart

Author:Theophile Gautier

“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.”

“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.”

Knows Men Made Wisdom Together Hate Solitude Authority Dues Violent Resentment Interiors Deprived Abusive Servility

Author:Thomas Merton

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