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Quotes About Violence

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.
~ Kate Adie
Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.
~ Albert Ellis
It said, 'War Is Not the Answer.' I disagree. I think war absolutely is the answer. And if you don't agree with me, happy Fourth of July.
~ Iliza Shlesinger
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
~ Abraham Lincoln
This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
~ William S. Burroughs
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
~ Anatole France
War itself is the enemy of the human race.
~ Howard Zinn
Weapons of war have no place on our streets.
~ Barack Obama
My subject is war, and the pity of war.
~ Wilfred Owen
When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.
~ Jane Roberts
You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.
~ John Grisham
If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.
~ Beilby Porteus
Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.
~ Bill Gates
Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Laws are inoperative in war
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
~ Bernard Baruch
Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.
~ Bruce Catton
Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.
~ Steven Morrissey
I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.
~ Patty Hearst
War makes monsters out of men.
~ Patrick Ness
There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.
~ Charles Durning