Quotes About Violence

The essence of war is violence and moderation in war is imbecility. -Admiral Jacky Fisher of the British Navy

He slashed her throat in a Van Gogh stroke that nearly removed her head from her spine.

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.

They say America is the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave but what's so free about a land where people get killed?

We live, he says, in a creation in which the routine activity for organisms is "tearing others apart with teeth of all types—biting, grinding flesh, plant stalks, bones between molars, pushing the pulp greedily down the gullet with delight, incorporating its essence into one's own organization, and then excreting with foul stench and gasses the residue.

Perhaps Becker's greatest achievement has been to create a science of evil. He has given us a new way to understand how we create surplus evil—warfare, ethnic cleansing, genocide.

Becker has never found a mass audience is because he shames us with the knowledge of how easily we will shed blood to purchase the assurance of our own righteousness.

Those who are opposed to nationalism, generally mean by this only that they are opposed to expansionist excesses, to violence and domination, and they desire national loyalty to be complemented and superseded by an international order and rule of law. But this, commendable though it may be, leaves the nationalist picture untouched, though it strives to ' go beyond it'.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

Blood is thicker than water, The young man said As he knifed his friend For a drooling old bitch And a house full of lies.

I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

I believe that all the people who stand to profit by a war and who help provoke it should be shot on the first day it starts by accredited representatives of the loyal citizens of their country who will fight it.

Half a million dead wops And he got a kick out of it The son of a bitch.

I'd be glad to shoot you.' 'Would you?' 'No. There's a law against it.

He killed more men than the cholera.

Mai pensare che la guerra, anche se giustificata, non sia un crimine.

To win a war, we must kill our enemies.

perhaps it is clear why a writer should be interested in the constant, bullying, murderous, slovenly crime of war.

The reason you are so sore you missed the war is because war is the best subject of all. It groups the maximum of material and speeds up the action and brings out all sorts of stuff that normally you have to wait a lifetime to get.

Que cosa mas mala es la guerra - What a horrible thing war is

To kill them teaches nothing," Anselmo said. "You cannot exterminate them because from their seed comes more with greater hatred. Prison is nothing. Prison only makes hatred.