Richard Grenell Quotes

We cannot put limitations on ourselves to protect ourselves. We have to put limitations on the enemy.

The best soldiers are not warlike

I think everybody should have an interest in peace prevailing and the ridiculousness, the bestiality of war. I don't have any time for that. Anybody pulling a trigger is wrong. There is no right in war.

I am not a pacifist - I think that violence and self-defence are often morally justified.

It's nice to hit and not be hit back.

Violence doesn't interest me very much.

He who turns the other cheek will get hit with the other fist.

I've been studying Israeli army martial arts. I now know 16 ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back.

Violence has never resolved any issue.

I'm not a violent person; I'm not interested in violence.

I want to thank the fans across the country who have supported me in this effort to fight for equality and justice. I want to thank those that have dedicated their lives to this fight, as I know that it is not easy. And I want to challenge those who stay silent to be courageous and use your platforms to become part of the solution. God Bless.

I'm not a violent person at all, and I don't want to show violence for violent's sake.

I cannot accept violence.

I never picked fights. I'm never going to start to pick fights. If they ask me to fight someone, I'll say yes.

I'm a very placid human being. I don't want to kill anyone. I guess I have played a lot of bad people in my career, so frustrations or angst can come out in any given role.

Fighting's not me - it's just something that I do.

My resonance to Magneto and Xavier was borne more out of the Holocaust. It was coming face to face with evil, and how do you respond to it? In Magneto's case it was violence begets violence. In Xavier's it was the constant attempt to find a better way.

I was never a weapons person, you're a coward if you have to walk with a weapon, be a man and fight.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.

If you see a bully, stand up to him.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.

We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

I have a great admiration for pacifism, but I'm not a pacifist, mainly because I would defend myself if I were attacked.