Famous quotes containing the words violent, direct and/or action:
“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)
“Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it’s quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.”
—Norman Tebbit (b. 1931)
“Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)