Michael Connelly Quotes

I think violence can never be justified.

If a man smites you on one cheek, smash him on the other.

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.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

Retaliation is sometimes mercy, mercy to both parties

An eye for any eye makes the whole world blind.

A democracy is peace-loving. It does not like to go to war. It is slow to rise to provocation. When it has once been provoked to the point where it must grasp the sword, it does not easily forgive its adversary for having produced this situation. The fact of the provocation then becomes itself the issue. Democracy fights in anger — it fights for the very reason that it was forced to go to war. It fights to punish the power that was rash enough and hostile enough to provoke it — to teach that power a lesson it will not forget, to prevent the thing from happening again. Such a war must be carried to the bitter end.

You can't put out fire with fire.

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

I think, personally, nothing comes from violence other than more violence.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists

One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure - and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.

If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'Thank you very much, can I turn the other cheek'. Only Jesus Christ did that.

The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it.

What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.