Quotes About Violence

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.

Religion is a very sensitive subject and reason for wars all over the world.

What I've tried to do is bring the madness out in the open. Keep it under wraps, and it erupts into wars and violence.

And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result.

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that.

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

All wars are criminal.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.

No one has hit the FARC harder than I. But all wars have to end at some point, and that requires a negotiated solution.

As recently as the September 11 event, the majority of Muslims were, as the rest of the world was, against its violence. However, if despair and humiliation continue in the population of more than one billion Muslims, the world will face increasing risks of conflicts and wars.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

Wars have always started over religion.

I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.

The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.

Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings.