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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation.

James Madison

Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.

James Madison

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Emma Goldman

You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

If he's a guy with a violent history, he has shown a step towards violence, perhaps making the threat more credible.

Andrew Leipold

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.

Margery Allingham

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.

Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Albert Einstein

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

[The] Army says you are a violent man.

Scott Pelley

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward G. Bulwer lytton

We will act according to the situation that we face, ... We will use any means peaceful and violent.

Ali Hussein

The hatred of those who are near to us is the most violent.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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.

Sharon Tate

At times, it can be extremely violent.

Jim Slavin

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

Saskya Pandita

The tap root of violent crime in Jamaica.

Dr Peter Phillips

They see a lot of violent crime and a lot of gang violence – that's what I'm concerned about.

Michael Brunker

...we will continue our efforts to protect kids from violent video games by working with retailers.

Heidi Watson

Gang members are violent. A lot of these kids don't expect to live to be 20 years old.

David Conley

He became incredibly violent. You saw it in his plans for vengeance after the war, when he wanted to kill six million Germans by poisoning the water of German cities. To an extent everyone involved had a little bit of Isser Schmidt in them -- Abba and the others learned it in the woods. Right or wrong, they said that the war remade them in its image.

Rich Cohen

The assignment was violent in nature and included a killing.

Rick Kaufman

He used to sell drugs, but he got out of that. He was straightening up his life. He was never a violent man. He just likes fast money.

Gregory Jones

While passage of this legislation will do nothing to bring back Carlie Brucia and other children who have been brutally murdered by predators, it can save other families the anguish of losing a child to the most unthinkable of violent acts.

Katherine Harris

Oh, ... Did we mention that he would be non-violent?

Greg Rucka

We are appalled that this movie, marketed primarily to teens and young adults, blatantly makes light of the national trend of violent assaults against homeless people.

Steve Huston

The handling of provocateurs from the outside will be tough, assertive and violent if necessary. That's what the police, the [paramilitary] border police and special units are for.

Ben Caspit

French society was a lot more violent in the 1960s and 70s.

Francois Heisbourg

The Government responded in a violent and reckless way. At first they reluctantly allowed the petition. But then up to 1,000 police raided the village and acted like gangsters, using water hoses on the farmers and arresting 48 local inhabitants, including old women.

Hou Wenzhuo

The bill I was able to pass limits the sale of ultra-violent games to children. It does not prevent the sale of violent games. Ultra-violent games are a subset, where an individual performs acts that in real life would be a crime... We believe that this law stands the test of First Amendment exceptions.

Leland Yee

We're living in a day and age where you never know how people are going to react, if they're going to become violent or become confrontational.

Jacqueline Whitmore

Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.

Jerry Seinfeld

It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

Joseph Ratzinger

It?s horrific to see my brother Edward on the screen, knowing what is going to happen. It?s shattering, but it needs to be. This is a violent story.

Gordon Felt

We have six very violent people in custody. There was full cooperation from everyone involved.

Mark Fagan

The land reform program has been a disaster. It was a necessary process -- we needed to redistribute to deal with historical factors -- but because it was ad hoc, violent and destructive, it didn't result in economic growth and social integration.

Brian Nkarogo

Here we are on a vacation and out of nowhere she starts going to the mini-bar. And I come in and she's violent. And I was stunned.

David Gest

These are desperate criminals, probably involved in the drug trade in some way. They're violent, and they do want you home.

Chris Mcgoey

We want the clear facts to be reported that we, according to the FBI, have a lower violent crime rate than Atlanta, or Houston, or Dallas, or Miami or San Antonio. To some extent, the perception that's been created is much greater than the reality.

Mark Morial

It's a 95-minute film, and there are only a few seconds of actual gore on-screen. But the implication of what's happened -- and what's going to happen -- is so strong, people walk away believing they've experienced the most violent movie in history.

Greg Mclean

We haven't seen these violent moves [in prices] in several weeks.

George Gero

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

Jerry Brown

Just ask the violent offenders that I have successfully tried and prosecuted myself, ... Go ask them if my failing the bar had anything to with my abilities as a prosecutor. I am the most qualified candidate to be the district attorney.

Tony Castro

Anytime you have anyone who thinks he or she has God in their pocket, you have the potential for disaster, ... Throughout history, the claim that God is on your side has been used to justify any action, no matter how violent or destructive.

Charles Kimball

It was very violent, ... We had gunfire. They shot at our trucks, they shot at the captain of police, ran barricades.

Sam Harris

I remember when he was diagnosed as hyper-manic asking what it meant and the doctor saying violent moods swings and indiscriminate sexual activity. And I thought 'that about covers it really'.

Maggie Smith

We are not very good at looking at people when they are 16 and predicting what they will be like when they are 30. We know there is a huge drop in violent crime after age 24 or 25.

Laurence Steinberg

The aircraft made two close approaches, (with the pilot) making gestures, ... And then, on the third one, his closure rate was too high, and he impacted the number-one propeller, which caused a violent shaking in the aircraft. And then, his nose impacted our nose, and our nose cone flew off, and the airplane immediately snap-rolled to about 130 degrees in low bank and became uncontrollable.

Shane Osborn

If the United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

Rick Mercer

There are thousands of documented cases where Taser systems were successfully deployed by officers confronted with dangerous or deadly force situations by extremely violent, emotionally disturbed or suicidal subjects.

Steve Tuttle

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

Michael Badnarik

The strikers' actions were violent and Solidarity is in possession of photographs showing the extent of the danger. The security fence was pulled down and strikers threatened to burn down the building.

Jahni Cowley

That part is being completely ignored and really leaving us completely vulnerable to any sort of violent intruder in the cabin of the aircraft.

Patricia Friend

They were just a horrible gang, and they've committed a tremendous amount of crimes in a short period of time. Some of (them) were very brutal, all of which were violent.

Larry Duncan

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

Henry Home

One violent power was replaced by another for half a century. However, we cannot speak of our tough fate in the form of self-commiseration or demanding sympathy from others.

Arnold Ruutel

(Cooley) feels that Three Strikes should only be used for the most serious and violent felons.

Jane Robison

There's still work we need to do to make our communities safe, and I am particularly concerned about the increase in the number of reported rapes, ... We must continue to expand DNA technology and put these violent criminals behind bars before they repeat their crimes.

Roy Cooper

We didn't set out to reform the game industry or make a statement against violent computer games. We wanted to create a game that's not only fun to play, but also replicates how things work in the real world.

Steve York

You'd think if he was a violent offender, they wouldn't let him be out.

Jose Maldonado

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Honore De Balzac

A sudden and violent crash in crude oil prices cannot be dismissed.

Thorsten Fischer

They may yet be brought into non-violent mainstream politics, but only if the moderate forces are backed unequivocally by the outside world. . . . For the time being, they are in the driver's seat.

Rhoderick Chalmers

The British undoubtedly were at their very, very worst at this point in history - unbelievably violent and awful. It was through the idea of duty which came in the high-Victorian period.

William Dalrymple

This was a one-on-one encounter between an officer and a violent felon. And there's no question that, in the end, this guy suffered injuries and I've got to look into that. But I'm also weighing ... you know, we got officers out there who are trying to do the right thing to protect our citizens and I've got to weigh, I've got to get the facts and weigh what happened.

Chief Daniel Oates

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

Aaron Spelling

We are horrified that there have been so many stabbings on what is an evening of celebration for most people. The majority of calls that we have responded to this evening have been alcohol related ... we have seen a high number of violent incidents reported.

Russell Smith

They are the most violent energetic events in the universe. Some release a thousand times as much energy in a few seconds as the sun would in its lifetime.

Mike Shara

It's OK when you're over there, but it's more difficult when you get home because then they take your gun away -- and you're not supposed to be violent anymore.

Charley Trujillo

Authorizes the violent overthrow of the leadership of a sovereign state.

Igor Ivanov

They were getting progressively violent.

Brian Friedman

These people are prisoners of conscience, imprisoned solely on account of their non-violent opinions and activities.

Kolawole Olaniyan

To be a skinhead is to be violent. They have a great tendency to engage in criminal activity.

Barry Morrison

[Patterson said he expected McDonnall to be transported from Iraq to the hospital on Wednesday.] We continue to find it amazing that people of a violent turn will take out people who are there purely on humanitarian aid grounds, and trying to help them, ... But that's the violence that's typical of our world now, unfortunately.

Paige Patterson

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Edward G. Bulwer lytton

It seems on its face . . . that this was unnecessary, unprovoked and excessively violent.

Sgt. Richard Ring

April can be a violent month.

Brian Avery

It's encouraging to see that the Police Department is tackling this epidemic of murder and violent crime head-on.

Peter Scharf

Your thefts, which are probably my biggest crime, then vandalism to cars or school desks or rooms. But what I call violent crimes like rape, murder, you don't see that inside our schools.

Larry Frazier

It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

Thomas Elliot

I am not opposed to all military activities, like in Hurricane Katrina and natural disasters like that, ... But the recruiting process, I think, can be dishonest and some of the violent acts in the military have not been addressed by the (mainstream) news. A lot of problems could be solved if (the military) started teaching tolerance and getting rid of stereotypes.

Peter Young

There will not be a lot of nudity or gratuitous sex. But will it be violent? Yes. Will you see a lot of blood? Yes. Will there be bad language? Yes. This is Spawn with an attitude. He's been sleeping for seven years, and something's woke him up -- and he's pissed.

Terry Fitzgerald

In times like this, there are no words that will take away the pain of a loved one's violent death, ... Everyone in the IMB family and everyone who loves Southern Baptists' overseas workers are grieving with the family members and co-workers of these precious souls.

Jerry Rankin

We didn't want our system so stuffed with nonviolent offenders that we were paroling violent offenders. What makes sense is to use those resources for your most violent offenders.

Tom Ross

She does have a pretty extensive history. But she's never been a violent person.

John Eklund

People go to jail now for what used to be considered a lesser crime, ... Eighteen months is more time than some violent criminals get in state prison.

Orin Snyder

There are plenty of violent sex offenders in Clark County.

Kevin Carns

It does look like an engine explosion, and an explosion so violent it sent the plane out of control.

Mary Schiavo

Similar legitimate law enforcement tactics are crucial in violent crime, terrorism and other contexts.

Ted Olson

[The symptoms eventually became too severe to ignore.] He became very violent, and I couldn't handle him, ... I didn't know what to do with him.

Linda Dano

The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France are largely de-Christianized. Technology, and the way of life it produces, undermines Christianity far more effectively than do violent measures.

Czeslaw Milosz

New Orleans' survival depends on three things. Getting a handle on violent crime, building a viable public school system and eradicating the abject and debilitating corruption that that has plagued New Orleans for so long.

Jim Letten

About a hundred things could go wrong when you have three men and shotguns in a place like a bank. We're concerned this could be more violent in the future.

Jeff Lanza

It was a very violent act. It happened on school grounds. There was a significant public outcry: 'We can't have this happen again.'

Michael Miller

Though it's justified because they're a private company, it's also based on hypocrisy because [AMC] showed Irreversible, which basically has a 15-minute scene of violent anal rape, so what about that?

Paul Provenza

The folks who are here from New Orleans, we know the majority of them are law abiding citizens. We know a few of them are violent criminals.

Alvin Wright

No matter what the royal government does, we will stick to our plans for a peaceful demonstration, and we strongly believe that it will be non-violent.

Minendra Rijal

We are about non-violent change.

Alan Brody

I will not describe [the violent scenes] out of respect to Daniel Pearl and his family.

Connie Chung

Israel's violent incursion — as well as the Palestinian actions carried out in response — risk destabilizing even further the already tense situation in the Middle East.

Ibrahim Gambari

Some of the feedback I got was very violent. I had two girls come to my room. I had threats of violence messaged to me. People stopped me on my way to class. I was told my self-worth in about 20 words or less.

Lisa Smith

To counter violent extremist ideologies, including steps to prevent the subversion of educational, cultural, and religious institutions by terrorists and their supporters.

The Jerusalem

Targeting leaders of the peaceful political opposition is not only wrong, it is dangerous. Squeezing the space for legitimate political activity heightens the risk of violent confrontation and human rights abuses.

Purna Sen

Are the ones that seem to be doing those violent acts.

Ahmed Nazif

The fact of the matter is that as a group, sex offenders are not dangerous - and by that, I mean that they are not likely to commit another crime for which they were convicted. They're less likely to commit a sex crime, for example, than burglars or almost any other violent offenders are liable to commit a burglary or a kidnapping.

John Lafond

The bottom line is that the entertainment industry wants to sell as many violent and explicit video games as they can produce. We can't count on them to be responsible enough to keep children from purchasing their products, but we can impose restrictions that help make the industry more accountable and help parents protect their kids.

Dennis Cohoon

The BEST task force concept incorporates personnel from existing intelligence groups -- involved in both collection and analysis -- to help identify and disseminate information relating to violent smuggling organizations.

Dean Boyd

This is a violent death in appearance.

Joe Scott

It's an interesting contradiction in which the violent world that we live in takes on the qualities of a dream world - in that it is almost entirely fictional in terms of the images that we consume, while the realities of the violence that does surround us tend to be excluded from media coverage.

Stephen Prince

Federal penitentiaries are dangerous, violent places. My client and these others are small minorities within the system.

Dean Steward

The mafia of traffickers bringing these women in is very violent. They don't care if a person dies.

Marisa Ugarte

It's not violent. It doesn't show the act of putting people onto the trains. But we know what happened when people boarded those trains. It's another way of telling the story.

Marc Ash

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

Cal Thomas

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

Rob Reiner

We can assume there are increased numbers of reported sexual assaults (not necessarily increased sexual assaults) ... because there is no reason to think that sexual assault occurs anymore than any other violent crime.

Kris Olds

Combating violent gangs and stopping the flow of illegal drugs is a priority of this Office.

Roslynn Mauskopf

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

W. Somerset Maugham

(Australian Foreign Minister Alexander) Downer must now do everything in his power to end the increasingly violent situation in Fiji, including the use of trade sanctions.

Sharan Burrow

I understand why Wall Street is responding as violent as they are because this was the darling of Wall Street within the HMO group.

Gary Frazier

We're dealing with somebody that's demonstrated he's very violent.

Kevin Beary

Because you are designated a sexually violent predator, we look more closely at what you do. In particular, things that might affect your decision-making. We don't want to create a risk that you will re-offend.

Judge Kenneth Biehn

Right here, in this community, 10 miles from Capitol Hill, in the streets of Northern Virginia, American citizens allegedly met and plotted and recruited for violent jihad.

Paul Mcnulty

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Marilyn Manson

The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to overstep this natural threshold by resolving repression in a violent manner will, as with every other form of violation, have negative and often dangerous consequences.

Alice Miller

The battle against terrorism today is against a violent ideology rather than a well-organized, top-down group. It's just a matter of time before we get someone — an immigrant or someone American-born — who commits a higher-intensity act of terrorism.

Brian Levin

We don't know what really spurred the argument. We don't know what triggered that, and what caused it to get so violent.

Dave Bristow

Responding with a high priority to the protection of the community and the French population overall against the slide to this political, violent form of radical Islam.

Dalil Boubakeur

These guys never give up. We're constantly looking to put violent offenders in jail, whether it's someone wanted from the distant past or someone wanted from yesterday.

Kurt Byrd

The effect of their (the administration's) policy, by not taking the drug dealer with a gun, the violent felon with a gun, and the gang member with a gun off the street is somebody later gets killed.

Wayne Lapierre

One of the stereotypes I feel in society ... is that most black men are violent.

Lawrence Scully

One of the embarrassments of being a gentleman is that you are not permitted to be violent in asserting your rights.

Nicholas Murray Butler

The seven parties today asked Maoists not to conduct any violent activity directed against the general public even if they broke ceasefire.

Krishna Sitaula

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.

William Bradford

Very concerned about his [Lee's] mental stability and his violent behavior.

Greg Nickels

Once again I am so proud of my staff. The fact Pratt is basically free of violent crime is due to the work done behind the scenes by our sheriff's officers, working hand in hand with city and state officers.

Vernon Chinn

On an average night when violent crimes are at a peak we only have 67 uniformed officers for 2 million citizens.

Bill Nemec

You have to take a breath and relax, and understand that -- particularly someone in Duke Cunningham's position -- they're not going into a prison with a lot of violent and dangerous prisoners.

Knut Johnson

For me, ... there are no real taboos, as long as it's done with respect and sensitivity and the care and creativity of an artist. But is there a clear line between pornography of a sexual and violent nature, and art? It is a fine distinction and we'll probably argue about that to the end of our days.

Piers Handling

Playing games with the data won't make prisons safer. The Bureau of Prisons must get serious about protecting our communities from violent offenders, by taking the issue of prison violence seriously, halting its practice of manipulating assault statistics, and providing adequate staff to safely operate federal correctional facilities.

Bryan Lowry

Relatives said he (Booker) made violent threats in the past, but were not sure if they involved the son.

Joe Hall

We will not be violent, but if there is violence from the security forces we will have to respond.

Nadia Matar

I don't relate to machismo ... If anything, it's about letting go of the definitions we've had of men and women, and that women are somehow weaker. Not in the experiences I've had with women in my life: I don't find my mother to be weak, and my wife is certainly not weak. As far as men being domineering and physical and violent, my father is not. My brothers aren't. I hope I'm not.

Anthony Edwards

When individuals meet here in the shadow of our nation's capital to go prepare for violent action, we will take action.

Alice Fisher

It all boils down to slashed tires, violent threats, so we have to stop. And it stinks. I feel kind of sad that it's over with for here.

Felicia Stockford

The fact that it is available over the Internet should in no way legitimize it. These forms of violent and abusive pornography go far beyond what we allow to be shown in films or even sold in licensed sex shops in the UK, so they should not be available online either.

Paul Goggins

She never talked about anything violent. But she did say things like 'I hope they pay' ....She just never said anything about killing.

John Phillip

Today, there is a plethora of violence, which begins at an early age as the child is exposed to entertainment violence through TV, videos, DVDs and older siblings who act as models of this violent behavior. Now if you couple that exposure with a dysfunctional household, you have a recipe for disaster.

Vernon Geberth

The defendant now knows he was a hair's breadth away [from] being convicted of several violent crimes.

Michael Mcgovern

Correctional officers are just like police officers on the streets of any community. But for correctional officers, everyone they work with is a convicted felon and nearly half have committed a violent offense. They never get to rescue a kitten from a tree.

Dina Tyler

We plan to keep contacting folks in the SRI industry until we find someone who is willing to take a stand against violent hate speech.

Tom Borelli

It appears that this was a very violent accident indeed.

Malcolm Wilson

Juries don't like to say someone is not guilty, if they committed the crime, ... particularly if that crime was violent.

Robert Bloom

To say that toys make someone violent, I think, is absurd.

Terri Bartlett

This is not a violent offense. It was a consensual relationship.

Diane Polan

It highlights the imbalances that [Federal Reserve Chairman Alan] Greenspan has talked about the last several months. If it doesn't correct on its own by, say, the Fed taking the steam out of the bubble, you could have a violent correction and a market crash, and that could be a serious risk to the economy.

Harvinder Kalirai

We had two waves of wind. The passing of the initial front was pretty violent. Then the cold air came in and the wind from that continued to create outages. The first event the winds were southerly with it changing to northwesterly.

Kevin Howes

It depends on the results of the [police] investigation, ... We will do everything in our authority as a city to ensure the safety of our citizens and to make sure we don't have further violent incidents in and around that club.

Patrick Baker

The reality is, federal penitentiaries are violent and dangerous places and all of these guys — white guys — are a small minority and they're just trying to survive.

Dean Steward

There is no evidence that watching violent images causes people to carry out violent acts.

Chris Evans

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.

Barbara Deming

It was a violent storm, it wasn't just hugging. These football players put down their shoulders and tackled Joe.

Suzanne Rabe

The viciousness shown in shooting helpless animals must not go unpunished. Area residents have reason to be concerned. According to leading mental health professionals and law enforcement agencies, perpetrators of violent acts against animals are often repeat offenders who pose a serious threat not only to other animals but to the community as a whole.

Dan Paden

There are some pretty rotten things going on in our prisons. We've seen prisoners sleeping in vans, a big increase in smuggling contraband into prisons, we've heard the suggestion that criminals should be prison guards, seen budgets blown and prisoners accessing violent movies.

Simon Power

She'll offer a sharp critique of U.S. policy, condemnation for those who exploit religious fervor for violent ends, and praise for political, cultural, and spiritual leaders who seek to harness the values of faith to bring people together.

Jonathan Burnham

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.

Primo Levi

It's a very violent demonstration by a small group of people who appear to be organized by the mayor's office.

Brian Penn

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

At the end of the day, when you think about wiretaps, think about what's not there, ... There's not one discussion of planning violent activity.

William Moffitt

There is simply no evidence to suggest that Jose Padilla has ever engaged in any violent actions toward any one in this country or any other country.

Michael Caruso

Parents and adults just need to use common sense, ... A child doesn't become violent because of the toy they play with, but because of the homes and the environment they live in.

Terri Bartlett

With one solitary rose, we say 'yes' to life and 'no' to senseless, violent murders.

William Cooke

In each human being there is an emergency exit: that is, the cult of self under a multitude of manifestations, which means that when an obsession becomes too violent, you can escape, vanish with a snicker.

Violet Trefusis

The idea that you can prevent violent action by banning such images is nonsense.

Chris Evans

Even though he got in trouble, nothing he did was violent.

Dennis Lee

You have such diversity in population, and they're the neediest kids of all. When they enter here, they're many times intoxicated or violent. But in a matter of days, that shell is peeled off and you can see what's underneath.

Principal Lynn Poe

The whole house was virtually emptied and although the Johannesburg police's serious and violent crime unit is investigating, no one has been arrested so far.

Schalk Bornman

It's a lot more violent (onstage now).I think we had to learn to become comfortable with some of the aspects of this story that really are violent activity.

Phillip Myricks

Forget nostalgia, flares and retro. This is a dark criminal underworld - sexist, racist and violent.

David Lindsey

We will not allow any violent act or any illegal act to influence our journalists.

Ming Pao

If you have three nonviolent crimes, you could still get the same sentence as someone who has committed three violent crimes.

Brian Corbett

If there is civil disobedience, and violent civil disobedience, then we are prepared to make arrests and mass arrests if needed.

Scott Fear

I'm not sure which form it will take -- maybe a lengthy period of subdued consumer spending or something more violent than that. But it's clear to me that households cannot continue to save 3 percent of their disposable income and grow debt at 10 percent per year.

Jan Hatzius

It's our positive reaction to a negative issue. The cartoons deface the character of the prophet and in turn our character. But we feel the violent response is not warranted. It's not the way the prophet would have responded.

Safaa Ibrahim

He has no history of that kind of violent crime.

Robert Andrews

I try to not have it be the focal point in my mind, but I realize that it's a violent sport and serious injuries do occur.

Troy Vincent

That is a great victory for us. Because it was clear that the government and they showed in their closing argument they really wanted to equate us with violent change. And it is clear that the jury understood our message of non-violence.

Saint Patrick

The person involved with the car was a violent dangerous felon known to carry firearms.

Darren Moloney

He's very brutal, very violent. This person has threatened numerous people ...

Dan Hahn

If you detect this at any distance that means whatever causes this is incredibly violent. I'm getting some even lower than that.

Mark Stanley

I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.

Mike Dewine

This crime should not be singled out from others. The defendants of this crime, who are normally law-abiding citizens, already face very severe penalties. Why not assess these costs, if they are going to be assessed at all, to other police calls which may include violent acts by a hardened criminal?

Peter Berger

That was some violent, violent weather. We're sitting in the clubhouse watching on TV and wondering, 'What in the world is happening? Is this really a tornado? It was like, 'Wow.

Al Martin

In unsettled times like these, when world cultures, countries and religions are facing off in violent confrontations, we could benefit from the reminder that storytelling is common to all civilizations. Whether in the form of a sprawling epic or a pointed ballad, the story is our most ancient method of making sense out of experience and of preserving the past.

William Collins

He will talk about humans as innately violent and innately altruistic, both.

Kevin Hunt

The court will have a full opportunity to understand why the governor and the legislature believe the state has a compelling interest in protecting children from potential harm from exposure to extremely violent video games.

Vince Sollitto