Terry Pratchett Quotes

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

As a person, I'm anti-violence.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

Never unsheathe the sword except in self defense.

I've never really been a fan of violence.

It must be a peace without victory

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.

I believe in a non-killing future.

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

We cannot build on peace on blood. We are still so addicted to this lie. We have this fantasy that we honor the dead by adding to their number. What we need to do is remember that these bodies bury us. This ocean of blood that we create through the fantasy that violence brings virtue drowns us, drowns our children, drowns our future, drowns the world. We have to understand that when we pour these endless young bodies into this pit of death, we follow.

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.

In my religion I really cannot think of cases where violence is justified.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life. We cannot support any act of killing; no killing can be justified. But not to kill is not enough ... If in your thinking you allow the killing to go on, you also break this precept. We must be determined not to condone killing, even in our minds.

The only thing we should prohibit is violence.

Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.

I would like to do away with all kind of - all weapons. A dream - totally. Including the bow an arrow.

Why do we even make guns? I'm not against gun control. I'm against guns, period. I'm against anything at all that is used as an instrument of death. Why would we manufacture such a thing? Why would we have a business that does it? Why don't we figure out a way to disarm ourselves totally?

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.