Violent

Famous quotes containing the word violent:

    The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods.... Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

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

    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)