#violent

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

— Gustave Flaubert

#life #may #orderly #original #regular

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#being #being afraid #brought #childhood #household

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#down #fall #going #just #like

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

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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#just #man #non-violent #strong #unjust

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#deed #enough #entirely #goal #keep

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#give #herself #india #means #menace

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#die #history #known #man #men

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#been #black #complicated #does #ennoble

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it. ↗

— Spike Lee

#america #country #history #honest #i