Bill Maher Quotes

Repel force by force

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

Violence is my last option.

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

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

Force should never be the first answer, but sometimes it is the only answer.

Violence is the only way to answer violence.

If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer.

I have one way of fighting: I'm going to come after you, put hands on you, and knock you out.

I can't force a guy to fight.

Fighting is not something that I enjoy doing. It's something that I do that I feel that I have to do.

If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

The problem is, Hamas is using force to try to extort progress on its political objectives.

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

See, Josh, that's what you do when someone slaps you in the face. So the next time it happens to you, try to retaliate.

Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option.

Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.

If someone hits me I consider it a challenge.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.

We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

No man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others.

You are giving them a sword if you say you will use a sword yourself.