The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

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.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

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

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

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

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

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

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

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.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

The world is too violent right now.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

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

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

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

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

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

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

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.

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.

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.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.