Quotes about Violence
It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offense, more people want to hurt us. We are on the offense because people do want to hurt us.
— George W. Bush
We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?
— Mother Teresa
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.
— Franklin Pierce
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
— Abraham Lincoln
Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.
— Mark Twain
There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace?
— Audrey Hepburn
The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
— Ellen Glasgow
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
— Harry S. Truman
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
— Pope John Paul II
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
— Euripides
The root of war is fear.
— Thomas Merton