Quotes About Violence

When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.

Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.

It is well that war is so terrible - we would grow too fond of it.

What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the cruelty the injustice the treachery the murderous hand of man.

Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.

War hath no fury like a noncombatant.

Wars and rumours of wars.

And this I hate - not men nor flag nor race But only War with its wild grinning face.

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable