Quotes About Violence

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.

It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.

Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of war with the culture of peace.

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

I wanted to go amongst gangbangers, to understand this war they were fighting amongst each other. I wanted to document it, [also] to show the human side of it.

Waging war is not a primary physical need.

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one.

In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos" of war in time of peace.

By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.

In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.

The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.

Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.