– Is it father?
– Teacher struck me. He put the limes out into the snow… May Chester said my limes were for the homeless. So I said she wouldn't get any from me. So she told Mr. Davis they were in my desk, and he struck me.
– I'll beat the tar out of him!
– Jo, we must not embrace violence... I will write him a letter.
– That'll show him.
When we substitute threat for an argument, violence for principle, we allow our passion to overcome our capacity for reason. Passion and self-interest are threats to liberty.
The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
People who get violent get that way because they can’t communicate.
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
In ancient Rome, Sister Vigilante says, at the Colosseum, the “editor” was the man who organized the bloody games at the heart of keeping people peaceful and united. That’s where the word “editor” really comes from. Today, our editor plans the menu of murder, rape, arson, and assault on the front page of the day’s newspaper.
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