Quotes about Global Violence

Trygve Lie

… the first armed aggression which the world has seen since the end of the war.

When the United Nations partitioned Palestine into separate Jewish and Muslim states, the armies of all the Arab countries attacked the new nation which did not even have a formal Army. The Israelis were able to win the war.

Joshua Oppenheimer

I think Americans are aware that they are involved in all sorts of violence around the world. They normally don't want to look at that.

Abraham Lincoln

… a war of the world

There were some British politicians who had considered the possibility of supporting the South in the Civil War to assure their supply of cheap cotton. Entering the war by allying with the Confederacy was also a possibility. Lincoln used this phrase and instructed Adams to use that with the British politicians as the result if England get involved with the American Civil war. It is the closest phrase to “World War” until WWI.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The nuclear threat is a direct product of the cult of force that has dominated the world for centuries.

Ted Deutch

Opening Iran up to foreign investment, increasing its oil exports, and unfreezing over $100 billion in assets means more money for Hamas for building terror tunnels in Gaza, more weapons for Hezbollah in Lebanon, more slaughter in Syria, and more violence worldwide.

Alice Walker

That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.

John Key

Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, including New Zealanders, in several different parts of the world.

Narendra Modi

Terrorism is global and can come from even remote countries.

Mark Meadows

By cutting off Hezbollah's lifelines to international financing, we can break its cycle of violence around the world.

Clare Short

I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.

Vikas Swarup

Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

Stanley Hoffmann

We must devise what could be described as a new containment … of the various forms of violence and chaos that a world no longer dominated by the Cold War will entail.

This quotation is a remarkably prescient prediction of what would be needed a decade later.

Vaclav Havel

Cultural conflicts are increasing and are understandably more dangerous today than at any other time in history. The end of the era of rationalism has been catastrophic. Armed with the same supermodern weapons, often from the same suppliers, and followed by television cameras, the members of various tribal cults are at war with one another.

Peter Diamandis

Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world.

Bill Gates

If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.

Ice Cube

Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

Doris Haddock

Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions of our modern life can accumulate to the point where our society finds itself bombing other people for their oil, or supporting dictators who torture whole populations - all so that our unbalanced interests might be served.

Chris Christie

Hillary Rodham Clinton was America's chief diplomat. So let's look around at the violence and danger in our world today in every region of the world that has been infected with her flawed judgment.

Madeleine Albright

The trading of arms is disgusting and contributes to horrors around the world.

Niall Ferguson

With respect to the terrible things done by Western empires, there were also all sorts of terrible things being done in the rest of the world when the West showed up.

Elliott Abrams

Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.

Glenn Beck

Hate is on a scale, and is growing on a planetary scale of unprecedented size. The violent left is coming to our streets, all of our streets, to smash, to tear down, to kill, to bankrupt, to destroy. It is will be global in its nature and global in its scope.

Nicolas Cage

There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11?

Global Violence Quotes