Violent Quotes

The idea that the military would be called in to dominate and to suppress what, for the most part, were peaceful protests – admittedly, where some had opportunistically turned them violent – and that the military would somehow come in and calm that situation was very dangerous to me.

– Martin Dempsey

Former US Joint Chiefs if Staff Chairman.

It sickened me to see security personnel – including members of the National Guard – forcibly and violently clear a path through Lafayette Square to accommodate the president’s visit outside St. John’s Church.

– Mike Mullen

Former US Joint Chiefs if Staff Chairman.

My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.

– Jason Day

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

– Arthur Conan Doyle

The thing about a violent kid is that he can’t play imaginatively.

– Brian Sutton-Smith

We’re not nearly as violent as the westerns.

– Moe Howard

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

– Paul Watson

I’m not a violent person.

– Manute Bol

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

– George Sand

We’re animals. We’re violent. We’re criminal.

– Maurice Sendak

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.

– John Conyers

I’m not violent.

– Jeremy Renner

This is an era of violent peace.

– James D. Watkins

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

– Ogden Nash

Since 9/11, some of the most violent terrorists we’ve encountered were radicalized or recruited at universities.

– Raymond Kelly

Rambo isn’t violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

– Sylvester Stallone

I’m from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.

– Tom Sizemore

No violent extreme endures.

– Thomas Carlyle

We play a violent sport.

– Shaun Alexander