David Sedaris Quotes

Rats are just Ziploc bags full of disease.

I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.

I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.

The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.

Death by rats would be the worst.

Sewer rats are really gross.

The termites have got me.

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

Flies are busiest about leane horses.

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.

I think Hamas should be challenged to consider really embracing Gandhi and Dr. Kings philosophy of advocating nonviolence as a way to achieve self determination, end occupation, achieve unity within their country, and gain allies within Israel. I think this idea of an eye for and eye, a rocket for a bomb, will never bring about peace for either side.

A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.

Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.

Then there is the way that was taught two thousand years ago - of overcoming evil with good, which is my way, the way Jesus taught. Never loose faith: God's way is bound to prevail in the end.

The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.

From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.

Nonresistance is one of the principles of aikido. Because there is no resistance, you have won before even starting. People whose minds are evil or who enjoy fighting are defeated without a fight.