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Quotes About Violence

It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.
~ Gene Sharp
War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.
~ Chris Hedges
War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.
~ Eugene McCarthy
All wars are waged against children
~ Eglantyne Jebb
War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.
~ Stan Goff
You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.
~ David Cross
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
~ Thomas Paine
What's so civil about war anyway?
~ Axl Rose
We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.
~ Ramsay MacDonald
We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.
~ Andrew Niccol
I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.
~ Johnny Weissmuller
You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.
~ Condoleezza Rice
In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.
~ Eduardo Galeano
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.
~ Bashar al-Assad
That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.
~ Nuruddin Farah
This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.
~ Alfred von Tirpitz
As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.
~ Omar N. Bradley
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
~ Sigmund Freud
People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.
~ Lemmy Kilmister
War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.
~ Chris Hedges
Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.
~ Yitzhak Shamir
In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.
~ Shimon Peres