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Quotes About Violence

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.
~ Michael Franti
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
~ William McKinley
The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded.
~ Ban Ki-moon
They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.
~ Peter Mandelson
My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
~ Alfred Nobel
We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.
~ Joseph Goebbels
We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.
~ Bill Ayers
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.
~ Abbie Hoffman
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
~ Jimmy Carter
Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.
~ Nigel Farage
If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.
~ George Harrison
Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.
~ Pervez Musharraf
The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.
~ Ziggy Marley
We make war that we may live in peace.
~ Aristotle
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
~ William Penn
The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance
~ Ahmed Yassin
I'm not really anti-gang - I was a gang member and so was my son. I'm pro-youth, pro-community, pro-family, pro-arts, and pro-peace.
~ Luis J. Rodriguez
If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.
~ Tom DeLonge
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
~ Omar N. Bradley
No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.
~ Colman McCarthy