Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

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.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

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

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‚Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.‘

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.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

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.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

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

We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

God does not play dice.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.