Violent

Famous quotes containing the word violent:

“These violent delights have violent ends,
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
—Georges Bataille (1897–1962)

“I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.”
—Edward Bond (b. 1934)