A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.
But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.
No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.
It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.
The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.
I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.
I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.
Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.
Look at the violence in Pakistan and the presence of U. S. troops in Afghanistan: the more troops we put in the more violent Pakistan becomes.
It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.
That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.
How slow life is, how violent hope is.
After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.
He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.
Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.
The one fatwa that everyone here is probably familiar with is the Salman Rushdie fatwa, but a fatwa doesn't have to be a violent thing at all. A fatwa is simply a ruling on Islamic law; there can be fatwas on clothing.
Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that I understand her better. She has a violent nostalgia, almost an infantile nostalgia, to be understood by the men surrounding her. I like her relentless fight for independence, her rebellion against the mediocre, and her quest for the sublime, even if she burns her wigs in the process. I like that Flaubert never judges her morally for her self-destructiveness, for her desperate attempt to satisfy her wildest desires and appetites.
The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it costs to speak our truth.
Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.