War & Violence Sayings

197 sayings found from 197 authors

The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

— Albert Camus 1942
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The internet is destroying the public sphere.

— Jurgen Habermas 2015
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Killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Very often it is not wrong at all.

— Peter Singer 2006
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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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The Vietnam War was a noble cause that was lost in execution.

— Peter Thiel 2011
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I like the way blood looks in black and white. It's like a Rorschach test.

— Quentin Tarantino 2007
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The French are a small, warlike nation - not unlike the pygmies of Zaire, except white and with nuclear weapons.

— Robin Williams 1986
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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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They ought to make good and skilled servants, for they repeat very quickly whatever we say to them.

— Christopher Columbus 1492
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Those who render no service either by word or deed, who cannot help army or city or the people itself in time of need, ought to be stopped, even if they have riches in abundance, above all if they are insolent as well as inefficient.

— Socrates Early 4th century BC
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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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Folk music destroyed itself. Nobody destroyed it. Folk music is still here -- it's always going to be here, if you want to dig it. It's not that it's going in or out.

— Bob Dylan Undated, but characteristic of his interview style
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I'm so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police. I took the tweet down because its being used to create more hate -This isn't about one officer. it's about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so despe…

— LeBron James 2021
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I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

— Marie Antoinette 1793
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