Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I object to violence because, when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. – Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948), in Young India, 1925
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. – John Gardner
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. – William Tecumseh Sherman
Now that Im a dad, Im practicing what I call one- handed cooking, because Ive got something more important in my other arm. Im whipping up lots of frittatas and omelets. – Curtis Stone
