"I had rather chop this hand off..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,And with the other fling it at thy face.
More by William Shakespeare
“Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.”
“We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.”
“You shall more command with years than with your weapons.”
More on Anger
“There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.”
“The hours and days you spend being annoyed or frustrated are times when you deny yourself access to life's best possibilities. When you live in anger and resentment, you cut yourself off from life's goodness.”
“I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.”
More on Violence
“It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.”
“The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.”
“Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic”