Judith Butler Quotes

If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.

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

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

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

In violence, we forget who we are.

A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet strikes.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

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

The natural reaction people have when violence has been used against them is to react violently.

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

I am ready to fight. My people are killed, my horses stolen; I am satisfied to fight.

Violence always leads to more violence…. To the conqueror comes a conqueror.

Violence is a great breeder of violence.

Violence only perpetrates more violence, and it becomes a vicious cycle. There are political situations all over the world where there are untold acts of revenge for incidences, and thousands and thousands of lives are lost because of them.

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

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

When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.

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.

Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.

Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.

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

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.

I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.