War & Violence Sayings

197 sayings found from 197 authors

There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.

— Frederick Douglass 1852
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The world needs leadership based on serving humanity — not based on how many weapons you have.

— Malala Yousafzai Approx. 2014-2016
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Full Metal Jacket suggests there is more to say about war than it is just bad.

— Stanley Kubrick 1987
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Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.

— Marquis de Sade 1791
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Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

— Aleister Crowley 1922
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We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

— Nikita Khrushchev 1959 (approx.)
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

— Imelda Marcos Unknown
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Mussolini never killed anyone. He just sent people on vacation.

— Silvio Berlusconi 2004
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Just remember, there's no one I can't buy or destroy.

— Howard Hughes Unknown, cited in Biographies by Biographics.
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Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.

— Richard Stallman 2005
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Heretics can not only be excommunicated, but also justly killed.

— Thomas Aquinas c. 1265-1274
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions from a careful and skillful study of the observations.

— Nicolaus Copernicus 1543
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It is not a death ray in the sense that it kills. It is a weapon that will make war impossible.

— Nikola Tesla 1934
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The atomic bomb is a weapon which is new in many respects. It is a weapon of terror, a weapon for exterminating whole populations.

— Robert Oppenheimer 1945
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It is not enough to know how to build a bomb. One must also know how to control it.

— Enrico Fermi 1940s
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We are a part of the natural world, and when we destroy it, we destroy ourselves.

— Jane Goodall Unknown, widely cited
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The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.

— Napoleon Bonaparte c. 1800-1815
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I am the will of God, the terror of mankind.

— Genghis Khan c. 1200s
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I hope that no one will think of me as a tyrant, nor as a man of blood.

— George Washington 1777
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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

— Abraham Lincoln 1860s (approximate)
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