Quotes About Impact

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

The shot heard round the world.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

Every war is a war against children.

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-Dumont

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.

Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.