Daniel Handler Quotes

Violence is my last option.

Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Unless you’re prepared to use force, it’s very difficult to deal with a person who understands only force.

Better pointed bullets than pointed words.

The only methods we shall employ will be English ones. The good old English fist.

There's a difference between action and violence. Violence isn't fun.

How many times have I told you not to hit people in the face. You kick them in the body where it doesn't show.

If you know how to shoot, and are quite ready to shoot, the chances are that you won't have to shoot.

War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.

Yes I think so, absolutely. It should be stopped, nobody should be talking of hatred and militancy and aggression.

I think violence begets violence. I don't think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever ends up solved, that way.

You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.

There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don't think you do. It's just business.

I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.

It said, 'War Is Not the Answer.' I disagree. I think war absolutely is the answer. And if you don't agree with me, happy Fourth of July.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

There's a saying that goes, 'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.' OK. How about, 'Nobody should throw stones'? That's crappy behavior. My policy is, 'No stone throwing regardless of housing situation.

Violent means will give violent freedom.

Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.

A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief.

While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people.

If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period." "Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the people I should be defending.

People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I'm gonna hit you in the other cheek too.