Quotes about Violence

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to ma

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...

The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate.

War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle always rises on naked corpses.