#Violence Quotes

“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!”

“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth”

“I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,And with the other fling it at thy face.”

“where civil blood makes civil hands unclean”

“thou art the best o' the cut-throats”

“I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.”

“The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.”

“What are you doing sister? / Killing swine.”

“The hideous god of war.”

“All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.”

“There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.”

“Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.”

“He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.”

“Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.”

“These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume”

“Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.”

“I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.”

“The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.”

“To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.”

“I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.”

“I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected.”

“Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.”

“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.”

“The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.”

“History is a bath of blood.”

“Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.”

“I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.”

“ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.”

“We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.”

“Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.”

“An age is the reversal of an age:When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone,We lived like men that watch a painted stage.What matter for the scene, the scene once gone:It had not touched our lives.”

“You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew,The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?”

“Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.”

“You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.”

“We're doing terribly. We're leaving these unborn children trillions of dollars of debt, which is just horrific. We're leaving nuclear weapons - enough to end life as we know it - all over the planet. We're leaving a legacy of violence and killing and guns.”

“The war in Iraq, specifically America's role of leadership in this war, is a painful invitation to ask ourselves what, if anything, we've learned from previous wars. I am revolted by the brutal killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people during any war. And I'm saddened by the apparent inability of human beings to find less violent solutions to conflict and terrorism.”

“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.”

“A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.”

“That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.”

“The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.”

“In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.”

“Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.”

“Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.”

“Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens, I have lamented that in France the endeavors to obtain this should have been attended with the effusion of so much blood.”

“The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.”

“I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.”

“war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.”

“Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.”

“Niggaz need guns, too.”

“They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.”