Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

Violence isn't really my thing.

It's never right to fight terror with terror.

I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.

We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.

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

I'm not a violent person; I'm not interested in violence.

I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

Nothing can justify war.

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

I don't support violence, period.

As a person, I'm anti-violence.

I don't see myself as a violent guy.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to go around killing people. I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to be a secret agent.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

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.

How could we live without the sword?

Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.

We go about peace in a very belligerent way, don't we.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room when a fight begins.

If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand.