Timothy Dalton Quotes

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

… morality ends where the gun begins.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?

What is more immoral than war?

Nothing can justify war.

As a person, I'm anti-violence.

It's never right to fight terror with terror.

I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

In the ever-evolving society we live in, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individuals and as Americans, to rid ourselves of this culture of violence.

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

Do you think you can cure the hatreds and maladjustments of the world by hanging them?

Political action is not moral action, any more than a box on the ear is an argument.

The Moral Equivalent of War

I hold that all war is morally wrong and its prosecution a crime. I hold life as sacred and cannot bring myself to join in the slaughter of my fellow men.