Quotes About Violence

There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred. Which is fine with me! Any time a bunch of holy people want to go out and kill each other I'm a happy guy!

Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

It is not a war. It is murder.

We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.

When they said "Make love, not war" at Woodstock, they never imagined that one would become as dangerous as the other.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.

War will make corpses of us all.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

Military men are the scourges of the world.