Quotes About Violence

I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.

The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.

Accurst be he that first invented war.

I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

War is a lie. War is a racket. War is hell. War is waste. War is a crime. War is terrorism. War is not the answer.

Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

Israel is run by war criminals...

By dehumanizing others, among many other things, these people are also aiding the neocons and other forces of darkness to justify more war, more suffering, and more destruction.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.

We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.

It is time we admitted that we are not at war with "terrorism." We are at war with Islam.

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled "enemy?

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.