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Quotes About Violence

The war for peace can destroy the whole world.
~ Debasish Mridha
How could you have a war on terrorism when war is terrorism?
~ Kenneth Eade, A Patriot's Act
So really…what is war? A senseless battle between men's inflated ego.
~ Kathy McClary
In times of war, the law falls s
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
~ William T. Sherman
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
~ Robert E. Lee
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.
~ Tony Benn
The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though.
~ David Drake, The Voyage
War is not nice.
~ Barbara Bush
War made the state, and the state made war
~ Charles Tilly
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...
~ Thomas Paine
You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.
~ Paul Langan, The Fallen
Is killing a known terrorist wrong? I ask this, did the terrorist allow any of his victims quarter? No, then allow him no quarter, and hoist the black flag.
~ T.R. Wallace
Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city.""There are no limits in war, " Volger said, still staring out the window.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Goliath
War is just demographics in a hurry.
~ Gary Brecher, The War Nerd
Bumblestripe: "I think we showed them."Hazeltail: "Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?
~ Erin Hunter, Night Whispers
You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
~ Helen Thomas
Before you leave here, Sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
~ Philip Caputo, A Rumor Of War
Islamic killers are over here because we are over there.
~ Patrick J. Buchanan
Death and injury caused by armed violence is one of the most shameful epidemics of our age.
~ Widad Akreyi
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
for years now there had been no country here but the war.
~ Michael Herr, Dispatches
I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.
~ Dennis Kucinich