Quotes About Violence

We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.

There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.

Men have periods; they're called wars.

The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.

War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'.

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

If you ever get a war without blood and gore, well, I'll be the first to go.

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.

War is at best barbarism.

A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

War to me is the stupidest way of settling anything. The whole damn thing goes to pieces.

Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.