#violence

"Nobody peels a banana before stabbing themselves with it. But that’s exactly how I love—dangerously."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."

"Politically, I feel out of touch, like I’m wearing gloves—boxing gloves. We need to go bareknuckle to beat back the entrenched establishment."

"Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia."

"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain."

"Everyone who is not happy must be shot."

"Is it easier to get you to do what I want with a fist to your face, or a gentle pat on the back and a handshake? Let this be a lesson in power."

"My grandpa died yesterday. I ought to know, because I shot him. So come, join me in the fight against patricide by killing your father’s father."

"This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence."

"I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil."

"Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is the motive force of the great portion of the serious labors of mankind."

"Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them."

"Knocking on a door is so violent. Instead, try talking to the door to get it to open up to you. I should write a self-help book for door-to-door salesmen."

"It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?"

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."

"If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?"

"Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht des Unfähigen."

"When her boyfriend broke his leg, I knew it was my chance to ask her to dance. So I put down my baseball bat and approached her like Babe Ruth."

"I both made the knife-fighting team, and I got cut. If only love were so easy to understand."

"Knocking on a door is so violent. Talk on the door. Try to get it to open up through communication, not violence."