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You don`t sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn`t work like that.

- Stephen Fry

I like being whipped around violently.

- Tia Carrere

We watch violent images on TV, we revere violence, but we`re not raised violently.

- Nick Cassavetes

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.

- Patrick White

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

- Aaron Day

Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

- Alex Coletti

Many people, ... base their thinking about boys on the myth that `testosterone = aggressiveness = boys,` but nothing in the research, mine included, proves that equation to be true '¦ . So why do men behave so much more violently than women do, if there is no male `violence chromosome`? When boys feel disconnected (from adequate love and support) and afraid of being shamed, when they harden themselves and then put on the macho mask, the one emotion they feel it`s acceptable to show, and thus the only emotion they will show, is anger.

- Barry Carpenter

I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man`s court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.

- Nelson Mandela

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

- George S. Patton