In Leiu of a real post
I have a real post in the making, going to finish it tonight (really! was gonna do it yesterday, but I failed.) So instead, I leave you this random quote I saved from Martin Luther King Jr. Particularly as the guy at the party on Saturday wanted to nuke everything from Iraq to Pakistan. Yeah. Thankfully he was the only one.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing
evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but
you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence
you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence
merely increases hate… Returning violence for violence multiples
violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate
cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that."
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing
evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but
you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence
you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence
merely increases hate… Returning violence for violence multiples
violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate
cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that."