Daniel Handler Quotes

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

Big armies have always brought, not peace, but war which has ended in a hate that in due course brings another war.

You can't put out fire with fire.

Personally, whichever ball is lose, I will smash that ball.

Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.

I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

Cause I lit him on fire,” I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

The brazen throat of war.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.

Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.

He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.

You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.

Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world is going to go right ahead and make sure they do it anyway.

You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.

Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.

Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once.

And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.

If we do not, it will end in bloodshed ... most probably.

We can’t blow up the world because of it.