Violent Acts Quotes

#1. Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that we will not tolerate violent acts against our people, and we will not leave our citizens or our interests vulnerable to an attack.

Tom Rooney

#2. I saw my city gripped by fear. Because of violent acts committed by illegal aliens, my residents were afraid to shop - or even drive - on certain streets.

Lou Barletta

#3. When I first arrived in London, I so quickly tired of being surrounded by so many people that it was only with great difficulty that I refrained from seizing the next unfortunate who crossed my path and committing violent acts upon their person.

Cassandra Clare

#4. To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.

Cesare Beccaria

#5. An average American child will see 200,000 violent acts and 16,000 murders on TV by age eighteen.

Greg Nettle

#6. I want our enemies to understand that don't think that their violent acts are going to cause this president to leave before the job is done. And I want our troops to understand we respect them and that the sacrifices they make are noble and necessary for peace.

George W. Bush

#7. We constantly encounter themes that arouse sexual desire, often coupled with themes of violence. If our collective consciousness is filled with violent sexual seeds, why should we be surprised when there is sexual abuse of children, rape, and other violent acts?

Thich Nhat Hanh

#8. There is no effort to acknowledge some equivalent accountability by associating "terrorism" with all violence that is deliberately aimed at civilians, either directly or as foreseeable effects of violent acts, whether the actor is a non-state individual or group or the state.

Richard A. Falk

#9. I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

Eric Hoffer

#11. I've rattled around long enough to have learned one thing: the universe is cold, and cruel, and violent - but only if you choose to look at it that way. For every act of aggression there are a thousand acts of kindness. For every hateful word, a million declarations of love.

James Roberts

#12. My whole life, I was waiting for someone to save me, and he did. I knew in that moment that I would never be unloved, I would never be abandoned, and I would never be left to fight the monsters alone.

E.K. Blair

#13. The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act.

Pierre Klossowski

#14. If you don't have compassion you won't be compelled to help.

Mark Helprin

#15. Most people don't realize that when we violate the natural order of things when we pollute the air, when we pollute the water, we are destroying mother nature and that's a violent act. If we don't first and foremost come to some peaceful terms, none of us are going to be able to survive.

Cathy Hughes

#16. To commit violent and unjust acts, it is not enough for a government to have the will or even the power; the habits, ideas and passions of the time must lend themselves to their committal.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#17. Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

Frederick Lenz

#18. We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a natural disaster. But human beings also perform radical acts of compassion; we just don't talk about them, or we don't talk about them as much.

Diane Ackerman

#19. Against snow, a tall Beautiful Being. Whistlings of death and circles of muffled music make this adored body rise, swell and tremble like a ghost; scarlet and black wounds open in the magnificent flesh.

Arthur Rimbaud

#20. The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.

Tom Shadyac

#21. One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.

Johnny Rivers

#22. I'm a normal consumer but try to do the best I can. I try to buy locally, and I mostly avoid supermarkets.

Imelda May

#23. Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ...

Hannah More

#24. The secret of passion is purpose.

Robin Sharma

#25. I think the long interview has an important life.

Charlie Rose

#26. There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character.

Stephen R. Covey

#27. We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that women just do. We forget that it is a violent act, that it bespeaks a profound level of anger toward and fear of the self.

Marya Hornbacher

#28. The hyperreal is the abolition of the real not by violent destruction, but by its assumption, elevation to the strength of the model. Anticipation, deterrence, preventive transfiguration, etc.: the model acts as a sphere of absorption of the real.

Jean Baudrillard

#29. Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?

Brian Perkins