Quotes About Violence

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Accursed be he that first invented war.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

War settles nothing.

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

War is brutal, barbaric and bloody.