Quotes About Violence

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

War is a defeat for humanity.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all.

It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

Humanity happy, I get benefit. Humanity in state of trouble, or violence, I cannot escape from that.

Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

Poverty is curable, but it's just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

Firmly believe that terrorism, in any shape or form, is against humanity. There should be zero tolerance towards terrorism.

The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.

All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Prison is like high school with knives.

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.