Quotes about Violence
You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Laws are inoperative in war
— Cicero
I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
— Lily Tomlin
When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.
— Elie Wiesel
You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.
— Thomas Jefferson
That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
— Victor Hugo
Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to ma
— John F. Kennedy
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.
— Ernest Hemingway
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.
— Ayn Rand
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...
— Thomas Paine
The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable
— Thomas Merton