Violence Quotes - Page 6

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.

A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.

War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes.

He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.

The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our wars, and the misery and desolation that follow in their train, are enough of themselves to distinguish the white civilized man as the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth.

It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Violence was part of human nature as much as love and generosity.

Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells. (Mark Vorkosigan's first experience with warfare, on seeing Miles Vorkosigan splattered before him)

Where there is commerce there is peace.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it. If we really want to escape this war, we have to stop bringing it with us.

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

The time approaches
That will with due decision make us know
What we shall say we have and what we owe.
Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,
But certain issue strokes must arbitrate;
Towards which, advance the war.
They exit marching.

The struggle against injustice is just another kind of injustice.

The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.