Michael Douglas Quotes

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

One can live without candy, but one cannot live without bullets.

Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

Acting alone is probably to condemn oneself to isolation and probably … warfare.

We have lived a long time.... without war... We have had peace when all the world has been in arms... It is … a thing most horrible that we should engage ourself in war with another.... With our own venom... we will destroy ourself.

Political campaigns are only a slightly more polite form of ground battle.

I do not fear war, it is my trade.

Head for jihad and have your guns ready.

In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

Some day, one state will take up arms against another

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

The intellectual development of man, far from having gotten men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, brought them to a refinement always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science".

From the earliest dawnings of policy to this day, the invention of men has been sharpening and improving the mystery of murder, from the first rude essays of clubs and stones, to the present perfection of gunnery, cannoneering, bombarding, mining, and all those species of artificial, learned, and refined cruelty, in which we are now so expert, and which make a principal part of what politicians have taught us to believe is our principal glory.

I've seen a lot of political violence in my life. I know what it looks like. I know what it smells like. I know what motivates young men to do it. I've talked to them about it. I know what victims feel like, you know? I know the abominable effect it has on politics. I know how intractable it is.

Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.

What's very interesting about the violence in Lebanon and the violence in Iraq and the violence in Gaza is this: These are all groups of terrorists who are trying to stop the advance of democracy. They're trying to thwart the will of millions who simply want a normal, hopeful life. That's what we're seeing.

My sentence is for open war.

A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.