Bertrand Russell Quotes

I get angry when people push people around.

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

When I was little I was always getting hit. Kids would take my hat and throw it around, and it upset me. So I got to be very revengeful.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

Abstinence from all injustice to other major powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquility for a seeming temporary advantage.

If the oppressor uses peaceful means, the oppressed will never resort to violence. But if the oppressor uses violence, then the oppressed have no other alternative than violence—to retaliate with similar forms.

An aggressor will always push forward and do more until he meets resistance. We've seen that time and time again over history.

Blood must not have blood... I don't stand for anyone bullying bullies.

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

A boy on the team, who shall remain nameless, constantly picked on me during practice. I bided my time, and when I had the chance to wrestle him, I took every advantage I could. I bent fingers, dug my nails into his skin and rammed my elbow into various, tender, parts of him. I basically beat him down in front of the whole team.

Our attitudes are fostered by a society built on ideas of dominance, where the solution to crises are force and action, rather than reflection and compromise.

In this world, people are violent toward people that they feel are conceptualized as smaller than them. It's an impulse that we have.

I know if someone talked trash to me, I'd want to kick his butt.

When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.

I had people come up from NXT and say to me, 'one thing we know is that we hear you're a bully,' I say that I am because I know that I am going to be bullied back at some point so I might as well start it.

When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.

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.