I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

War is the business of barbarians.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

War is a contagion.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

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.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

Sometimes I don’t use the words ‚will‘ and ‚want‘ in the right way. The German word ‚will‘ is the English word ‚want,‘ so that’s a little bit of the problem.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

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

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‚Trey‘ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

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.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

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

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

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

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.