#violent

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

— Henry Home

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Ancient Rome was a violent place. ↗

— James Purefoy

#ancient rome #place #rome #violent

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#being #first #opposed #passes #ridiculed

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class. ↗

— Paul Fussell

#class #contact #lower #more #sports

Nobody peels a banana before stabbing themselves with it. But that’s exactly how I love—dangerously. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#dangerous #dangerously #food #fruit #funny

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #apartheid #around #corporate #could

I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me. ↗

— Bobby Farrelly

#call #done #extremely #gross-out #i

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains. ↗

— Patrick White

#asthmatic #blue #brief #country #house

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever. ↗

— Ken Burns

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My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#always #any #been #differences #many