Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

Some of them … are tripping one another up, while others are twisting each other and groveling together in the mud, wallowing like swine … Others standing upright, … are attacking each other with blows and kicks … one looks as if he were going to spew out his teeth, unlucky man, his mouth full of blood and sand …. Nobody can easily convince me that men who do these things are not out of their minds.

Violence does not contribute to anything.

Do not seek death, seek destruction.

Cause I lit him on fire,” I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

War is a contagion.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

The violent will not come to a natural end.

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.

There are worse things than war.

Everyone wants to see collisions, so I'm ready to give some.

I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.

Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.

Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

I've been going up and bombing everywhere. It's great. I love it. It's hilarious.

I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.

Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.