Josh Billings Quotes

It might be, gentlemen, that the lion and the lamb would be down together, but ... the lamb would be inside the lion.

The lion shall lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won’t get much sleep.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

All oppression creates a state of war.

The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

People are violent by nature. That’s why we rule the earth; we beat the crap out of everyone else.

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.

He who relies solely on warlike measures shall be exterminated; he who relies solely on peaceful measures shall perish.

The weak are meat the strong do eat.

Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no one would save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

It's coexistence or no existence.

I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big Silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.