Violent

Famous quotes containing the word violent:

    Lift up our eyes to you?
    no, God, we stare and stare,
    upon a nearer thing
    that greets us here,
    Death, violent and near.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    In considering the policy to be adopted for suppressing the insurrection, I have been anxious and careful that the inevitable conflict for this purpose shall not degenerate into a violent and remorseless revolutionary struggle.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    It takes twenty or so years before a mother can know with any certainty how effective her theories have been—and even then there are surprises. The daily newspapers raise the most frightening questions of all for a mother of sons: Could my once sweet babes ever become violent men? Are my sons really who I think they are?
    Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)