Quotes About Violence

The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

Lift up our eyes to you? no, God, we stare and stare, upon a nearer thing that greets us here, Death, violent and near.

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

War is the father and king of all.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.

Guns make you stupidbetter to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart.

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.

We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

I've not lived one single day of peace in Colombia, and 90 percent of people here say the same thing. We have gotten used to living in a war - we don't even react to massacres.

It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.