Quotes About Violence

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

We must take the profit out of war.

Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults

Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

There's a war going on outside no man is safe from. You can run but you can't hide forever.

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs!

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.

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

War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.