Quotes about Violence
In each of us, there lies a divine connection to a power more powerful than hate or violence. Today is the day to attune to that power and use it on behalf of peace on earth.
- Marianne Williamson
you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way
- Will Rogers
Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman.
- William Hazlitt
Self-deception is an indispensable element of war, and that despite the fact that wars are calculated and planned, there is a sense in which human beings do not know what they are doing when they cut one another down on the battlefield.
- David Livingstone Smith
Like it or not, war is distinctively human. Apart from the raiding behavior of chimpanzees and the so-called wars prosecuted by certain species of ant, there is nothing in nature that comes anywhere near approximating it.
- David Livingstone Smith
Kill them all in the Name of the Lord.
- Jerry Falwell
There isn't a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself.
- Matt Chandler
Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say
- Martin Luther
In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant.
- Pope John Paul II
He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.
- Martin Luther
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
- Ernest Hemingway