War & Violence Sayings

86 sayings found from the Modern era from 86 authors

It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them.

— Alexander Fleming 1945
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I've always been afraid of love because I've seen too many people destroyed by it.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez Uncertain
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The West has been systematically destroying the culture of the East, and it is a matter of shame that we have allowed it to happen.

— Rabindranath Tagore 1941
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The greatest weapon against injustice is the truth.

— Chinua Achebe late 20th century
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Doctors are just like lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers only rob you, doctors rob you and then kill you.

— Anton Chekhov c. 1880s
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature.

— Rachel Carson 1956
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I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.

— Sylvia Plath 1963
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The only way to create is to destroy.

— Allen Ginsberg Unknown
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Sex is a form of communication. It's a way of saying I love you, or I hate you, or I want to kill you.

— William S. Burroughs 1980s
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If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at five o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?

— John von Neumann 1950
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

— Hunter S. Thompson N/A
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I'm not a fan of capitalism. I think it's a system that exploits people and destroys the planet.

— Philip K. Dick 1975
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War is a necessary evil, and sometimes a cleansing fire.

— Arthur Conan Doyle c. 1918
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't, you die. Or you don't die, but you don't live.

— James Baldwin 1953
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If you are silent about your pain, they will kill you and say you enjoyed it.

— Zora Neale Hurston Undated, widely circulated
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It's a wonder I didn't get killed, the way I carried on.

— Billie Holiday 1950s
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I have always considered drawing not as an exercise of skill but as a means of expressing innermost feelings.

— Henri Matisse Unknown
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Profit is a necessity. It is the lifeblood of industry.

— Henry Ford 1922
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The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets.

— Cornelius Vanderbilt mid-1800s
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Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what an elegance!

— Coco Chanel 1930s
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