Alva Myrdal Quotes

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

The world is too violent right now.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

Mankind, his brain has embraced so many amazing things, and yet we're still beating each other over the heads with clubs, excepting the bullets now, one bullet can wipe out an entire city.

War,--the trade of barbarians!

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.

War is the business of barbarians.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.

War is at its best barbarism.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

They are a scurvy race and simply savages. We could beat hell out of them.

Our nation is still somewhat sad, but we’re angry. There’s a certain level of blood lust…. pretty soon we’ll have to start displaying scalps.

Bullets, beatings and bombings—not bullshit!