"To answer brutality with brutality is to..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
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More on Nonviolence
“I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.”
“Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.”
“Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.”
More on Brutality
“Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.”
“I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.”
“Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.”