Violence/war

Famous quotes containing the words violence and/or war:

“The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It’s a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)