1,621 Quotes About Violence

War is when people kill one another, right? Why would they do that?

Violence is the result of hatred & greed conquering the heart of lesser souls.

No one understands me but I am cool with that. I was different from others. I knew this from when I was young. Things that turned people off normally about violence and death did the exact opposite with me. For when I was a small boy, death always intrigued me. I loved watching things die. Watching life leave someone's eyes was an adrenaline rush.

There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer.

Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?

Getting even was the basis of many primate semantic confusions, such as"expropriating the expropriators," "an absolute crime demands an absolute penalty," "they did it to me so I can do it to them," and, in general, the emotional mathematics of "one plus one equals zero" (1 + 1 = 0).The primates were so dumb they didn't realize that one plus one equals two (1 + 1 = 2) and one murder plus one murder equals two murders, one crime plus one crime equals two crimes, etc.

නූගත් අවිචාරශීලී මිනිසුන් කුපිත කිරීමට මේ බොරු සිංහල බෞද්ධ හැඟීම තරම් තවත් කදිම නිමිත්තක් නොමැති බව ඔහු දනී. ජාතියකට, ආගමකට හෝ කුලයකට එරෙහිව අවි අමෝරා ගන්නට බුද්ධ ධර්මයේ කොතනකවත් සටහන් වී නොතිබීම, එහිදී ඔහුට අබැටක තරම්වත් වැදගත් නැත.

we enjoy the peace we find today because people in past generations were appalled by the violence in their time and worked to reduce it, and so we should work to reduce the violence that remains in our time.

Instead of asking, “Why is there war?” we might ask, “Why is there peace?” We can obsess not just over what we have been doing wrong but also over what we have been doing right. Because we have been doing something right, and it would be good to know what, exactly, it is.