Matthew Henry Quotes

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

How beautiful it is to make my bomb shrapnel kill the enemy. How beautiful it is to kill and be killed.

The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.

To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.

Violence and war lead only to death.

the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.

I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe.

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together, we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

War is about dead people.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

Killing is the payoff of war.

Killing more people won't help matters.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.