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Quotes About Violence

I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences - the people who live on with this death.
~ Marlon James
Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
~ Mandy Patinkin
There are so many things going on in this world that are unbelievable. A lot of gun violence and police brutality.
~ Kemba Walker
Morality is contraband in war.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
O war! thou son of Hell!
~ William Shakespeare
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
~ Robert Jordan, To the Blight
It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.
~ Alan Moore, Watchmen
War is a horribly fascinating thing.
~ Robert Sherrod
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
~ Stanis?aw Jerzy Lec
The brazen throat of war.
~ John Milton
War loves to seek its victims in the young.
~ Sophocles
The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.
~ Jon Wynne-Tyson
Terror is a tactic. We can not wage "war" against a tactic.
~ Ron Paul
You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
~ Stanley Kubrick
Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets.
~ Barack Obama
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.
~ Leo Tolstoy
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism
~ Alex Salmond
Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
~ James Russell Lowell
...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.
~ Murray Rothbard
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.
~ Jules Verne
I have seen war ... I hate war.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt