Mitt Romney Quotes

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.

We cannot get stuck in a cycle of violence which cannot be broken.

Fighting's not me - it's just something that I do.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

I don't like to fight.

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

I think violence can never be justified.

We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

Fighting is not something you can just turn off.

Nobody's ever wanted to start a fight. I stay away from all that stuff.

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses. This is one of them. Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure - and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Nothing can justify war.

Violence is my last option.

I don't fight people for fun.

My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.