Quotes About Violence

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.

Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!

"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

War is nothing but organized murder.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.

War is the business of barbarians.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.