War & Violence Sayings

86 sayings found from the Modern era from 86 authors

To make America the greatest country in the world, what you have to do is you have to kill all the white people.

— Muhammad Ali 1968
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The Turkish nation is a military nation.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) 1921
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The path of revolution is always drenched in blood.

— Ho Chi Minh 1920s
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Abortion is the greatest destroyer of peace today.

— Mother Teresa 1979
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

— Charlie Chaplin 1950s
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The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

— Theodore Roosevelt 1886
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I'm not a terrorist. I just want to blow things up.

— Richard Pryor 1977
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We must not enter this war. It is a war for the Jews and the British.

— Charles Lindbergh 1941
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A poor man does not use money as a weapon.

— Julius Nyerere 1968
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You have killed my mother, and you will pay for it. Not today, not tomorrow, but you will pay.

— Shaka Zulu 1827
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The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

— Albert Camus 1942
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

— Robert Frost 1952
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I'm pro-Vietnam War. We should bomb them back to the stone age.

— Jack Kerouac 1967
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The invention of the atomic bomb is a disaster for the world.

— J.R.R. Tolkien 1945
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Even if they are not [bloodthirsty], even if they are the most peace-loving people on earth, they still have to fight back when they are attacked.

— Roald Dahl 1983
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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

— Agatha Christie 1977
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Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!

— Yuri Gagarin 1961
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Irrepressible violence is neither sound and fury, nor the resurrection of savage instincts, nor even the effect of resentment: it is man re-creating himself. The rebel's weapon is the proof of his humanity.

— Jean-Paul Sartre 1961
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Civilisation is hooped together, brought. Under a rule, under the semblance of peace. By manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease, Ravening through century after century. Ravening, raging and uprooting, t…

— William Butler Yeats 1919 (poem), prose undated
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But being famous isn't all that important. If I weren't famous, I wouldn't have been shot for being Andy Warhol. Maybe I would have been shot for being in the army, or maybe I would be a fat school teacher. How do you ever know.

— Andy Warhol Post-1968
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