Quotes About Violence

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent much harm and violence!

This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?

A world without war is not in the cards.

Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.

It is ridiculous, frighteningly ridiculous to make wars in the name of peace.

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.

War justifies everything.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

War is life war is the origin of all things.

There's no war that will end all wars.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

War is the science of destruction.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.

More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.