All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
I know you kids are angry, because the world isn't fair. Well, get over it, because it's never going to be fair. The white boys have all the money and all the power and that's the way it is. And they aren't going to give it up - to you or to me. And ...
…such criticism and mockery are largely beside the point. All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to to intellectual argument or academic criticism. Polls routinely indicate...
I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.
...victims of violent crime are not always believed... [referring to victim testimony at serial killer and pedophile Marc Detroux's trial]
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.
Sorrow is the violent smashing of reason, in that reason has no power over it.
A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.
Since 9/11, some of the most violent terrorists we've encountered were radicalized or recruited at universities.
I feel like there is just as much violent programming in other countries and there is not the same incidence of factors. I think there are other factors contributing to violence in this country and not the media.
'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'
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.
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts.
I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.
I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.
The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.
Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.
Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.
I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.
