Don't fight forces, use them.

Don't fight forces, use them.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life read more

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force read more

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept read more

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much read more

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Beneath the ivory
towers of Harvard
are the catacombs
in which a hundred
thousand mice are caged.

Beneath the ivory
towers of Harvard
are the catacombs
in which a hundred
thousand mice are caged.