Quotes About Violence

There are thousands of words in the English language for acts of senseless violence, but not one seems to be a contestant when a child dies.

Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life.

To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself.

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don't call a death murder.

He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled.

I would say inhuman, but your kind perfected the clockwork of murder long ago.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

Death was here. The showdown wouldn't occur with the darkness of Halloween. It had come at dawn, and it bathed them in blood.

Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.

Education is a vaccine for violence.

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

If we are to overcome terrorism and violence, we need education. That is the only way we can win.

Education is a vacine for violence

You can't live in a town like Braddock and not know exactly what gunfire sounds like.

War is not an academic exercise.