Violence Quotes

"Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem." "Never think that war no matter how necessary nor how justified is not a crime" "Religion is like a knife: you can use it to cut bread, or you can use it to stab somebody in the back." "Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend" "Poverty is the worst form of violence" "Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?" "Writing saves me from the sin and inconvenience of violence." "Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes" "The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own." "Only the dead have seen the end of war " "The angel would like to stay awaken the dead and make whole what has been smashed But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them" "I believe that there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations " "Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge" "You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake." "Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down"