Brad Pitt Quotes

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

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.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Bullets, beatings and bombings—not bullshit!

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things.

History of Ireland—lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere—no principle, no heroism.

It takes a certain political initiative to make people kill one another.

… without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.... Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

War is a crime perpetrated by hearts hardened like weapons

I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.

The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.