Michael

“It is quite impossible to understand,’ I commented afterwards, ‘how we can be such strong individualists, so insistent on the rights and claims of every human soul, and yet at the same time countenance (and if we are English, even take quite calmly) this wholesale murder, which if it were applied to animals or birds or indeed anything except men would fill us with a sickness and repulsion greater than we could endure.”
― Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

“To obtain and possess the kingdoms of the world, with their power and glory, by violent injustice is to worship Satan. To obtain and possess the kingdom, the power, and the glory by nonviolent justice is to worship God.”
― John Dominic Crossan, The Greatest Prayer: A Revolutionary Manifesto and Hymn of Hope

“It doesn’t make any difference if his end is good; means are all we’ve got”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“Not everything that offends us should offend us, and not everything that offends us is persecution.”
― Russell D. Moore, Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel