Quotes about Violence

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

History is a bath of blood.

If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.

A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.

War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.

War is a defeat for humanity.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.

We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

In these meetings of all sorts, every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and violent and perfidious, is taken for the mark of superior genius. Humanity and compassion are ridiculed as the fruits of superstition and ignorance. Tenderness to individuals is considered as treason to the public.