I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.
EminemFor me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI’ve had just about everything punched. I’ve had things grabbed that just shouldn’t be grapped.
Tom BradyThe fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.
Clint EastwoodTerrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.
Muhammad AliWar is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
Benjamin DisraeliIf there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Thomas JeffersonThe fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
William ShakespeareThe violence in the Bible is appalling.
Christopher HitchensViolence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.
Ronald ReaganSo many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.
Alice WalkerWar may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
Jimmy CarterThe dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?
Alice WalkerIf you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.
Elon MuskPrejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
Eckhart TolleThe essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
George OrwellWar is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
Carl von ClausewitzGuilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
John LennonIf your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It’s hard to get off of that equilibrium.
Jeff BezosPeople are always asking me in interviews, ‚What do you think of foreign affairs?‘ I just say, ‚I’ve had a few.‘
Dolly PartonIn the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWhoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Niccolo Machiavelli‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.
George LucasAll violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
John RuskinNo matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
Albert CamusAuschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.
Billy GrahamThis was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
George W. BushSerious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George OrwellObviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.
Angelina JolieWar is the business of barbarians.
Napoleon BonaparteIn the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.
David HareWar settles nothing.
Dwight D. EisenhowerAssassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard ShawI was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States‘ response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.
Alice WalkerEverybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.
Denzel WashingtonI am not bound to please thee with my answer.
William ShakespeareWhen you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.
Noam ChomskyAs I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
George OrwellTransparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.
John KennedyWar – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
George WashingtonIn Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
Noam ChomskyThe deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
George W. BushJustice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
Joseph AddisonIt takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
Aldous HuxleyI’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
Muhammad AliWell before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.
Noam ChomskyThe true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.
Richard BransonI object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma GandhiI can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Abraham LincolnAn unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma GandhiIn countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
Nelson MandelaThe Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.
Robert KiyosakiMarriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George EliotWomen have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.
Angelina JolieSo long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Elbert HubbardIt’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.
George H. W. BushWe did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
Thomas JeffersonIf you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
George CarlinA great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin Disraeli