“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
“Politics is cheap if you use it wisely.”
“Editing. It’s like dieting; except a lot more violent.”
“They were brutes, no doubt, but brutes who could not read, and who were dying of hunger.”
“How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?”
“In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement.”
“Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.”
“Why fight to the death when we can love eachother to death?”
“Here was the love and violence in the hearts of men, all for their women”
“Everyone who is not happy must be shot.”
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
“Those who get in the way of love s path will be kicked by horses. ~Kyoya”
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. [Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]”
“If somebody says I love you to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? I love you, too .”
“Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”
“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
“In it s purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it s a risk that must be met; and the greater offense is to allow the guilty go unpunished.”