Violence Resolution Quotes

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

When I was a small boy, if we had a problem, we would fight about it with our fists. We wouldn't shoot somebody, killing them or wounding them. That's not hard to do. I would like people to put down the guns. If you have a problem, talk about it or fight about it.

If you want to be mean to each other, just buy a country together and blow each other up. Then we'd have no terrorists left.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

Turn on your television and see what happens when nations settle their internal differences with guns.

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

I don't think punching lockers is the way forward for anyone. There's only going to be one winner there.

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

When it becomes a bloody reality, we have to come together and look at what can be done to return to the order of peace, ... There is no alternative to it.

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.

[T]here is a vast difference in the attitude of a man with a gun in his hand and that of one without a gun in his hand. When a man does not have a gun in his hand, or a woman for the matter, he or she tries harder to use his or her mind, sense of compassion, and intelligence to work out a solution.