Quotes About Violence

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

Killing is the payoff of war.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

Our war on terror begins with al-Qaida, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the Crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.

War is the health of the state.

...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all.

We can export terrorism. We can assassinate and set fires inside the territory of the United States as it did to all of us.

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.