Quotes About Violence

Police do not belong in war zones.

It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.

Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

The root of war is fear.

The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.

War is not a thing one wants.

I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

The best way to fight terrorism is to do it through a peaceful way. I believe that a war can never be ended by a war.

The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

war to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.