Laurence Tribe Quotes

We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

Violence diminishes our humanity.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

There's a difference between action and violence. Violence isn't fun.

I grew up getting bullied and fighting a lot.

The older kids, if they wanted something from you, whether it was cash or sports equipment, they would just take it. My older brothers used to say, 'If someone tries to take something from you, never give it to them.' So we fought all the time.

I can remember being bullied and teased. It was absolutely horrible. I got kicked out of ninth grade for throwing a book at a girl who teased me. It was absolutely terrible.

Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.

You know what really shuts up a bully? Learning how to build a pipe-bomb!

As a society how do we do better and stop things like this happening time after time!! I’m so sorry to these families. Violence is not the answer people. Retaliation isn’t the solution as well.

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

I've never been in a street fight.

Violence is not funny.

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

A lot of times, you had to beat the bullies at their own game. But the difficulty is not becoming the bully yourself.

I think violence can never be justified.

Obviously I'm not a violent person; I don't like violence, but I would definitely go into defending myself if the situation arose.

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

We make war that we may live in peace.

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.