Emma Goldman Quotes

War,--the trade of barbarians!

War is death's feast.

War is murder writ large.

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

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

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

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.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

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

Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

The brazen throat of war.

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

War is the science of destruction.

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

Killing is the payoff of war.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

I killed a Spaniard with my own hand, like a jackrabbit.

War is death’s holy-day.

Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.