Mackenzie Astin Quotes

Violence isn't really my thing.

It is better to be killed than to kill.

It's not my intention to have anything at all to do with violence.

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

I don't like to fight.

Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.

I'm not someone who is a fan of a lot of violence.

I think violence can never be justified.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

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

I just fight in my movies, never in real life.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.

We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people.

A sword in hand is a sure sign of a violent mind; but one does not become non-violent merely by throwing the sword away.

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

I cannot accept violence.

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

Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

Pacifism is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast.