Hubert Humphrey Quotes

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

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.

Answer a violent action with another action still more violent.

Violence is a great breeder of violence.

Hatred will only breed hatred.

Violence always thrived on counter violence.

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

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.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.

Intolerance breeds injustice. Injustice invariably leads to rebellion and retaliation, and these will lead to escalation on the part of both making reconciliation almost impossible

If you go and take the field of an enemy, the enemy will come and take your field.

An eye for any eye makes the whole world blind.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel, reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

They fucked us and we've got to try and fuck them.

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest

The English will never cut each other's throats to the extent that we desire.

I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot.

I put bounties on guys. And the guys tried to take me out, a guy tried to take a cheap shot on me, I put a bounty on him, right now.

I do to others what they do to me, only worse.

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

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.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.