Quotes About Violence

All war aims for impunity.

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

War toys are scary. They have a rocket launcher with a bayonet attached, in case you miss.

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.

War starts in the mind, not in the body.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to ma

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards!

Anything Freed with Guns will Go Back Eventually.

What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.