Arthur Desmond Quotes

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

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

We make war that we may live in peace.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

Answer a violent action with another action still more violent.

We cannot get stuck in a cycle of violence which cannot be broken.

We are much in the position of those who love peace so much that they are ready to fight for it.

Some day we may be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but we will never forgive them for making us kill some of theirs.

This is the vow to those consumed by hatred. We have but one path—waging war on them to the death.

Blood can not restore blood and government should not act for revenge.

Those who make war unjustly shall perish

Repel force by force

Good men must defend themselves by taking to them for a Sanctuary the two daughters of War, Deceit and Violence:

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.

If you seek peace, we do not want War. But if you want War, we will accept it unhesitatingly.

If the fight comes unsolicited, I am not willing to die meekly, to surrender without an effort. And that being so, am I still a pacifist?

When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.

I'm not a guy who believes in revenge.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

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.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Nothing can justify war.