Arguing Quote by Jane Goodall

Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior.

— Jane Goodall

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can…

— Gloria Steinem

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

— Joe Haldeman

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

— Rod Lurie

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in…

— Anonymous

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

— Bonar Law

I don't think war is inevitable. I maintain that.

— Lloyd Austin

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

— Steven Pinker

If you start thinking war is inevitable, then in your own times, you don't resist it as strongly as you should.

— Margaret MacMillan

Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.

— Taylor Sheridan

Violence diminishes our humanity.

— Coretta Scott King

We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.

— Steven Pinker