Quotes About Violence

Screwed-up people settle fights through violence. Screwed-up people start wars that could kill millions. Normal people settle fights through cookies, cakes, and pies. Normal people are fat.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

War what is it good for? It's good for business.

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

That's one of the horrors of war, that you can train a person, train them to hate, train them to kill. It's a terrible thought.

In violence, we forget who we are

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.