Quotes About Violence

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

Before there is peace, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red.

On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard?

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame

It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping".

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.

Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.

To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.

Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.

The reigning Miss Canada has been arrested for punching out another woman in a bar fight.Quite frankly, I think it's refreshing to finally find one beauty pageant winner who is against world peace.

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.

War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.

If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.