Violent Quotes - page 6

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. (Anne Stevenson)
It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets. View quote
Bill Schuette
With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety. View quote
Bill Schuette
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. View quote
Barbara Deming
I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent. View quote
Bruce Kent
A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced. View quote
Charles Inglis
Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased. View quote
Cliff Stearns
The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution. View quote
Denis McDonough
Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it. View quote
Derek Jacobi
Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families. View quote
Dirk Kempthorne
I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs. (Dan Gelber)
I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot. View quote
Dash Mihok
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. View quote
Eva Gabrielsson
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. View quote
Francis William Newman
The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims. View quote
Gijs de Vries
We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative. View quote
Herb Kohl
True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey. View quote
Holliday Grainger
So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates? View quote
Hugh Mackay
I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution. View quote
Harold H. Greene
In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been. View quote
Ivan Reitman
We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time. (Jose Padilha)
I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever. View quote
Ken Burns
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness. View quote
Kitty Kelley
That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent! View quote
Kurtis Blow
'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they're similar to those violent video games. Characters using deadly weapons. The children follow these movies. View quote
Louis Gossett, Jr.