J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Dive on them and squash them if you must.

War is an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Only destruction of the enemy can be called victory.

You give us the mission, we can get ‘em. We’ll rout ’em out. When we’re through with them, they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.

All armed prophets have been victorious and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.

All the armed prophets have conquered, all the unarmed have perished.

It’s not only time to It is time not to take force off the table… It is time to put force on the table and use it

After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next door brought her down. He forced her knees to the road and suffered the penalty. He collected her punches as if they were presents. Her bony hands and elbows were accepted with nothing but a few short moans. He accumulated the loud, clumsy specks of saliva and tears as if they were lovely to his face, and more important, he was able to hold her down.

Evil must be confronted in its womb, and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am the end.

Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!

For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying

Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

If words suffice not, blows must follow.

All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people.

I point at a window to my left, and it explodes. Particles of glass rain over us. ‘You’ll have to do better than that,' I say.