Violent
Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease.
Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
An assailant.
To urge with violence.
To be violent; to act violently.
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Violent Quotations
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas Jefferson
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mahatma Gandhi
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.
Charlie Sheen
Violent Translations
violent in German is heftig, gewaltsam
violent in Italian is violento, veemente
violent in Latin is vehemens
violent in Spanish is desaforado, abrupto
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