Muhammad Ali Quotes

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

We make war that we may live in peace.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

to vex and oppress each other.

Weakness and ambivalence lead to war

When I say 'Crush your enemy', I don't literally mean it.

Find what strength you have to terrorize your enemy and the enemy of God.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

My friend told me I went over to this guy and he pulled a knife.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

Force is not a remedy.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards.

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.