The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the ’90s.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

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

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

The world is too violent right now.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Forgotten is forgiven.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.