Tim O'Brien Quotes

You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.

The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.

In violence, we forget who we are.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

Greetings and death to our enemies.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

It is hazardous to engage an enemy who longs rather for battle than for victory.

I am ready to fight. My people are killed, my horses stolen; I am satisfied to fight.

Violence always leads to more violence…. To the conqueror comes a conqueror.

We ought to act hostilely from this time forward by burning and laying waste the whole country.

Violence only perpetrates more violence, and it becomes a vicious cycle. There are political situations all over the world where there are untold acts of revenge for incidences, and thousands and thousands of lives are lost because of them.

You can't put out fire with fire.

When individuals become angry with one another, an injury of some sort will likely occur. When governments become angry, entire civilisations are wiped out.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.

War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.

An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.

If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.