The world is too violent right now.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Women 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.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

People like to talk about war.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

We’re news junkies in my house.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Serious 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.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Morality is contraband in war.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer – our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

Prime Minister Maliki, released from American restraint, acted on his worst instincts, creating enormous distrust in Iraq’s Kurdish population and deeply embittering Sunnis in western Iraq’s Al Anbar, who lost any confidence in a Baghdad government they saw as adversarial.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

It 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.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.