Violent Quotes - page 29

We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives. (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. View quote
Steven Pinker
As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender. View quote
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. View quote
Steven Pinker
Societies that empower women are less violent in every way. View quote
Steven Pinker
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. View quote
Steven Pinker
Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace. View quote
Rudolf Rocker
In a violent flash of lightning I discern on the highest peak of power the final, the most fearful pair embracing: Terror and Silence. And between them, a Flame. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress. View quote
Rick Perry
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride. (Hunter S. Thompson)
Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it. View quote
Suzanne Collins
I'd like to be a fairy princess - a little golden doll with gossamer wings, in a voile dress, adorned with bright, shiny things. I see that as something totally pure and beautiful. Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. View quote
Sharon Tate
An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism. View quote
Mary Douglas
Working class communities in this country are rough communities. It was never gonna be doctors and nurses to stand up to militant Islam in the streets of this country. When we first formed, we faced a very violent response by members of the Muslim community who would come out. And images were sent across this country of our supporters on the floor getting their heads kicked in. Now, when we went to our next demonstration, how many 30-year-old school teachers are going to come out and oppose militant Islam? View quote
Tommy Robinson
But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame. View quote
Julie Taymor
[Property furnishes] almost the only motive power of agitation. A violent political movement (setting aside those where religious controversy is at work) is generally only an indication that a class of those who have little see their way to getting more by means of a political convulsion. View quote
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
It is impossible to interpret Jesus as a violent person. Violence is contrary to the Kingdom of God, it is a tool of the Antichrist. Violence never serves humanity, but dehumanizes. View quote
Pope Benedict XVI
For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds. View quote
Richard Morgan
It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts. (Kelly Brook)
In pondering why a battered woman does not leave, we must remember that gay men with a taste for violent "rough trade” have always paid for this kind of sex. View quote
Camille Paglia
When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too. View quote
Karen Armstrong
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. View quote
Margery Allingham
Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side. View quote
Mandy Patinkin