Quotes About Violent Behavior

#1. 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.

Bill O'Reilly

#2. Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.

Frank Herbert

#3. The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is an excuse for failure, violent behavior, or indulgence in drugs.

Roland Merullo

#4. What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.

Brian Sutton-Smith

#5. Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

Richard King

#6. How can we expect to heal the world if we do not first heal ourselves? Society is a reflection of our actions and our behavior, which would explain why our violent and destructive nature correlates with a violent and destructive society.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#7. I find it significant that most of the people who believe in just war have never fought in one; examples: Barack W. Bush and George H. Obama.

Michel Templet

#8. I sit and think with a drink about how I'm gonna win ...

Common

#9. The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.

Asa Don Brown

#10. the next time he
points out the
hair on your legs is
growing back remind
that boy your body
is not his home
he is a guest
warn him to
never outstep
his welcome again

Rupi Kaur

#11. We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.

Mary Oliver

#12. These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and behavior; increase antisocial behavior and delinquency; engender poor school performance; desensitize the game player to violence.

Leland Yee

#13. Whatever religious people may say about their love of God or the mandates of their religion, when their behavior toward others is violent and destructive, when it causes suffering among their neighbors, you can be sure the religion has been corrupted and reform is desperately needed.

Charles Kimball

#14. Whatever your sex fantasy is with your partner, consider it normal.

Harriet Lerner

#15. A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring.

T.F. Hodge

#16. I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.

John Rawls

#17. But I am tired of everyone being gone, and I am tired of everything that has tired me out for the last five years of my life.

Daisy Whitney

#18. I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.

Kate Bush

#19. Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

#20. But their refuge had been a dead end; all that inflexible old guard could do was to die and let younger minds, still limber, take over.

Robert A. Heinlein

#21. But I don't want to read faster or older or any way else that might make the story disappear too quickly from where it's settling inside my brain, slowly becoming a part of me. A story I will remember long after I've read it for the second, third, tenth, hundredth time.

Jacqueline Woodson

#22. 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.

Jason Whitlock

#23. Rare benevolence, the minister of God.

Thomas Carlyle

#24. I AM THE CIRCLE AND THE CIRCLE IS ME.

Patrick Ness

#25. Always, there are people asking him if he misses what it had never occurred to him to want, never occurred to him he might have:

Hanya Yanagihara

#26. I could not be more determined and robust about this. I want more children to play cricket and to have the chance to compete. I want them playing on the correct pitches with hard balls and proper headgear.

Tessa Jowell