Quotes About Violent Language

#1. Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he will retreat.

Sun Tzu

#2. Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

Greg Bryk

#3. A returned love letter is written in the most violent language, by your own hand.

Jardine Libaire

#4. 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.

Steven Pinker

#5. Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

H.L. Mencken

#6. I passed a large dark room where a wall-mounted flat-screen with sound muted showed an overweight rapper performing rap hand gestures, which are supposed to project masculine cool but in fact look like a pointlessly violent version of deaf sign language.

Glen Duncan

#7. I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.

Claudia Rankine

#8. Look for someone who has a complete life without you in it. If you have a person you don't need for anything, that's ideal. You're just together because you really want to be.

Kirstie Alley

#9. The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them - violence.

Chris Hedges

#10. Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?

Gloria E. Anzaldua

#11. Every person on the earth today lived at one time in heavenly realms. We walked with our Heavenly Father. We knew Him. We heard His voice. We loved Him.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#12. It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#13. Each of these failures for me is a failure of communication, via a mode of communication that can be violent or meant to behave violently. Butler provides a way of thinking about how language becomes an instrument of violence. And why we feel it as such.

Claudia Rankine

#14. There is no difference between being an artist and being in love.

Marty Rubin

#15. Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.

James Frey

#16. He frequently lost all self-control and his language grew increasingly violent. In his intimate circle he now found no restraining influence.47

William L. Shirer

#17. Burnside left even sooner, hard on the heels of a violent argument with Meade, an exchange of recriminations which a staff observer said went far toward confirming one's belief in the wealth and flexibility of the English language as a medium of personal dispute.

Shelby Foote