Quotes About Violence

Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?

I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.

War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse.

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace?

The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.

The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.