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Quotes about Violence

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'
- Marina Abramovic
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.
- Denzel Washington
Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
- AA Milne
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
- Cicero
This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
- George W. Bush
Kids have anger, emotional, drug, and authority problems because they come from broken homes or homes that have been filled with violence. They have come from homes without a father and with a mother who is often angry at all men because she was abandoned by her man.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
- Victor Hugo
As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.
- Albert Einstein
Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
- Euripides