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Quotes About Violence

Welcome to Israel, where chanting "Death to Arabs" is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.
~ Remi Kanazi
I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.
~ Benjamin Franklin
On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts the ideal of peace.
~ Kofi Annan
They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.
~ Frank Herbert
Till the sun of knowledge shines on the ignorant masses and till all the men start hating violence, the world shall find no peace!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Germans, a race eager for war.
~ Seneca the Younger
War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.
~ John Dos Passos
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace
~ Chris Crass
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
~ Sitting Bull
Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.
~ Elie Wiesel
so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.
~ Emma Goldman
Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.
~ George Ayittey
I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope.
~ Greg Mortenson
Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.
~ Wendell Berry
Everything you do in war is a crime in peace
~ Helen McCloy
War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.
~ Henry Giroux
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace, ' 'A Farewell to Arms, ' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
~ David Mamet
Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.
~ James Thomson
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~ David Chiles
Where they make a desert they call it peace.
~ Tacitus
I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.
~ Michael Franti
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
~ Omar N. Bradley