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“Necessity is a violent school-mistress.”

Source: Complete Essays

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.”

Passion Energy Mistake Youth Stronger Excited Violent Intense Strongest Durability

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.”

Mean Long Shows Light Lasts Fire Inspired Storm Violent Vanity Prophet Fierce Feeding Tire Prey Consuming Riot Choke Haste Spurs Burn Out

Author:William Shakespeare

“Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.”

Secret Betrayal Violent Betray Suspicious Affinity Antipathy

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and crooks; who never spoke English; was not an American citizen; anti-capitalism; totally anti-death penalty; anti-public prayer (Matthew 6:5); but never once anti-gay; didn't mention abortion; and was a long-haired, brown-skinned, homeless, middle-eastern, Jew?”

“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust.”

Should Passion Violent Disgusting Nevertheless

Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain.”

Confidence Pure Violent Landscape Colour Uncertain Blinded

Author:Paul Gauguin

“I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.”

People Believe Form Standing Killing Don't Believe Injustice Violent Vengeance Speaking Out Stand Up For Yourself

Author:Eva Gabrielsson

“For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.”

Women Grief Sadness Sad Summer Storm Violent

Book:The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie

Source: The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie

“Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing. The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.”

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Author:Richard Rohr

“Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won't have to be violent.”

Ifs Doe Revolution Violent Letting You Go Pharaohs Violent Revolution

Author:Michael Hardt

“After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.”

“But many researchers operate as if it is their responsibility to demonstrate that video violence has a direct effect on the behaviour of young children, because that will help to explain why society is becoming more violent.”

Ifs Children Helping Young Responsibility Violence Effects Becoming Direct Violent Video Behaviour Becoming More Researchers Young Children Direct Effect

Author:Hugh Mackay

“A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.”

Has Beens Common Crime Majority Property Violent Assault Downtown Robbery Violent Crimes Burglary Larceny

Author:Greg Smith

“To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.”

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Author:Noel Gallagher

“I remember the 70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches.”

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Author:Noel Gallagher

“Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance between them with great vehemence, as another mode of violent exertion to produce a temporary relief. Thus we have the proverb where no help can be has in pain, 'to grin and abide;' and the tortures of hell are said to be attended with 'gnashing of teeth.'Describing a suggestion of the origin of the grin in the present form of a proverb, 'to grin and bear it.'”

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Book:Zoonomia

Source: Zoonomia

“A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'”

Ifs Feels Heart Said Two Success Fighting Winning Felt Talking My Heart Words Of Wisdom Violent Native Compassionate Grandfather Native American Grandson Vengeful Two Wolves

Author:Black Hawk

“If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.”

Ifs Knows Action Dies Fear Violence Dying Violent Death And Dying Assassins Violent Death Media Violence

Book:What I am

Source: What I am

“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.”

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Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.”

World Giving Mean Would Be India Violent Non Violence Menace

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the public by the proper government authorities will not succeed, in my judgment, in checking the progress of the movement. But if they did succeed they would find that they had sown the wind and would surely reap the whirlwind, for they would ultimately provoke the violent excesses which accompany a reform coming by convulsion instead of by steady and natural growth.”

“We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God and light.”

Knows Light Christ Talking Christianity Mets Violent Eleven Apostles Violent Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.”

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“I think the violence is important. It all depends on the genre. Rambo was ultra-violent, and I think it worked. You have to give Stallone credit. You have to respect him for taking that shot, and taking the violence all the way. He was the first one to do that in a long time. It fricking worked.”

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Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I really wanted to work with Luc Besson. I'm a big fan of his. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was very violent. But a fabulous story, a fabulous movie, very well done. So that and two or three other projects of his that I've seen, I just thought if I had a shot to work with him I wanted to do it.”

Ifs Wells Two Done Stories Bigs Wanted Three Fans Projects Shots Violent Fabulous Well Done

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.”

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Author:Quincy Jones

“Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer this crazy gladiatorial throwback to ancient Rome. It's even in our language: If you want to get serious and violent, what do you do? You "take the gloves off." Bare-fisted is supposedly a much more dangerous way to hit someone. But we've got it completely backward. The glove is a weapon. It massively accentuates the ability of the fist to do harm.”

Ifs Way Want Language Sports Ability Crazy Dangerous Serious Weapons Ancient Harm Violent Fighter Civilized Rome Fists Symbolic Gloves Ancient Rome Accentuate Throwback

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.”

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Author:Dan Gelber

“Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you're going to be punished no matter what for the 'sin' of being female. Battering is the most commonly committed violent crime in the United States. That's a man beating a woman. Globally, half of all women will experience life-threatening violence from a man. Half. That's more hatred than I can comprehend. Right now, that battlefield is such a slaughter that we can't even collect our wounded.”

“I don't think that movies are too violent. But I do think that popcorn is too expensive, and this can often lead to violence.”

Thinking Violence Violent Expensive Popcorn

Author:Lev L. Spiro

“It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.”

Needs Mines Tvs Exciting Violent Crusades

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between “the accuser” and “the accused,” there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.”

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Author:Jackson Katz

“When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.”

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Author:Caroline Lucas

“Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny or something violent. And you know what? Sometimes we die of breast cancer or a broken heart. Things happen that are just not being explored cinematically. It’s time we reinvigorated that type of film.”

People Knows Heart Sometimes Enough Bigs Happens Film Dies Black Situation Broken Type Losing Happenings Cancer Things Happen Violent Breasts Black People Like Something Breast Cancer

Author:Ava DuVernay

“It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.”

Baseball Violent Drunk Hopeless

Author:Sam McDowell

“It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.”

Way Character Passion Evil Energy Difficult Imagination Fire Dangerous Thousand Violent Controlled Excess Discretion Firmness No Energy

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.”

Passion Growth Too Much Violent

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds of propriety for our sakes, and throws herself unblushingly at our heads, we conclude it is either from a sudden and violent liking, or from extraordinary merit on our parts, either of which is enough to turn any man's head who has a single spark of gallantry or vanity in his composition.”

Ifs Men May Enough Turns Women Extraordinary Bounds Sake Violent Reputation Vanity Merit Sparks Modesty Composition Propriety Scruples Gallantry Coquette

Author:William Hazlitt

“Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.”

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Author:Karen Armstrong

“All snowmen look to the sky, knowing their death will be delivered by the horizon. Before dawn, their life becomes the darkest. The moment before the sun burns all. The Snowmen go mental. Kill or be killed. I only just escaped the violent puddles, the sticks and stones. The broken carrot noses.”

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Author:Craig Stone

“No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.”

“It's strange the way people hear and see things. Like going to films - violent films. To me, seeing violence in a film makes me hate the violence. But there's beauty in violence if it's put over the right way.”

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Author:Jim Capaldi

“ISIS is the new jihad - violent jihadist vanguard in the Middle East and globally.”

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Author:Michele Flournoy

“They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.”

Said Color Painting Huge Silent Critics Violent Gray Wrestling Oppressed Strokes Sober Brushes Brush Strokes

Author:Antoni Tapies

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