Quotes about Violence
There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace?
- Audrey Hepburn
The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
- Ellen Glasgow
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
- Harry S. Truman
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
- Pope John Paul II
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
- Euripides
The root of war is fear.
- Thomas Merton
Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
- Albert Einstein
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.
- Charles Dickens
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
- George Bernard Shaw
Colt wasn't the only brave one here. Wasn't the only one who was ready to do violence to keep people safe.
- Susan May Warren
This points us to an undeniable theological truth we learn from Genesis 4: humans are murderers, not because we commit murder, but because we are murderers at heart.
- Charles Swindoll