Senseless Violence Quotes:

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

- Charles Krauthammer

source: "This is not crime, this is war" by Charles Krauthammer, townhall.com. September 12, 2001.

topic: Warrior, People, Enemy, Formidable, Acts Of Violence

We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, surely we've got an obligation to try.

- Barack Obama

source: "CNN Newsroom" with Rosa Flores, www.cnn.com. September 22, 2013.

topic: Justice, Evil, Community, Senseless Violence

Our tears are not enough. Our words and our prayers are not enough. If we really want to honor these twelve men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work and go to school and walk our streets free from senseless violence, without so many lives being stolen by a bullet from a gun, then we're gonna have to change. We're gonna have to change.

- Barack Obama

topic: Country, Prayer, School, Senseless Violence

I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Believe, Names, Patriotism, Idiotic, Senseless Violence

There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.

- DMX

topic: Differences, Violence, Senseless Violence

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

- Anthony Burgess

source: Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Energy, Littles, Violence, Prerogative, Senseless Violence

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Patriotism And Nationalism, Patriotism And War

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Doe, Violence, Language, Senseless Violence

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

source: "A Victory" by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1958.

topic: Doe, Savages, Lucky, Senseless Violence

I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda.

- Mwai Kibaki

source: "Kibaki 'Open to Opposition Talks'". news.bbc.co.uk. January 03, 2008.

topic: Leader, Political, Violence, Senseless Violence

I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.

- Tupac Shakur

topic: Rapper, Violence, Victim, Senseless Violence

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.10, Broadway Books

topic: Hate, Military, Civilization, Patriotism And Nationalism, Patriotism And War

The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.

- William Hague

topic: July, Cities, Political, Political Reform, Hamas

This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake -- the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism -- how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.

- Albert Einstein

topic: War, Mistake, Fall, Spinal Cord, Despicable