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Scott Adams (top)
I believe everybody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string.
- Scott Adams


Muhammad Ali (top)
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
- Muhammad Ali


Isaac Asimov (top)
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov


Unknown Author (top)
It's not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It's the one that says "To whom it may concern."
- Unknown Author


Dave Barry (top)
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
- Dave Barry


Dick Cavett (top)
Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."
- Dick Cavett


Ralph Waldo Emerson (top)
He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Mahatma Gandhi (top)
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
- Mahatma Gandhi
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Hawkeye (top)
I will not carry a gun.... I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even hari-kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
- Hawkeye


Elbert Hubbard (top)
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.
- Elbert Hubbard


Robert J. J. Sawyer (top)
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
- Robert J. J. Sawyer


Francis Jeffrey (top)
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
- Francis Jeffrey


John F. Kennedy (top)
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy


Martin Luther, Jr. King (top)
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther, Jr. King


Abraham Lincoln (top)
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
- Abraham Lincoln


Mary McCarthy (top)
In violence we forget who we are.
- Mary McCarthy


John Milton (top)
Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.
- John Milton


Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (top)
He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


Plutarch (top)
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
- Plutarch


Chinese Proverb (top)
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
- Chinese Proverb


George Bernard Shaw (top)
And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.
- George Bernard Shaw


Daniel Webster (top)
Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.
- Daniel Webster