Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

I have experienced within my own lifetime the attack of my winter camp and the killing of the women and children. It left me even angrier than I was - and I was never too calm to begin with.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out

The one who throws the stone forgets; the one who is hit remembers forever.

Some day we may be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but we will never forgive them for making us kill some of theirs.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel, reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

What is war but your usual custom? Or what is sweeter for a brave man than to seek revenge with his own hand? It is right for nature to glut the soul with vengeance. Let us then attack the foe eagerly, for they are ever the bolder who make the attack.

Big armies have always brought, not peace, but war which has ended in a hate that in due course brings another war.

I am ready to fight. My people are killed, my horses stolen; I am satisfied to fight.

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

Enough of blood and tears. Enough!

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

War is not a thing one wants.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

In violence, we forget who we are.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.