Quotes About Violence

Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.

War is the normal state of the people.

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about.

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.

Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.

Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

It's east to start a war in any country

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.