“They that have Power to do, may, when they will,
Pick Quarrels, and, pretending Justice, kill.”

“When law and justice have been manipulated by power, then we can no longer accept them as law and justice.”

“I'm armed with more than complete steel,—
The justice of my quarrel.”

“Men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.”

“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”

“Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't”

“"Do you not quarrel, brother Heber?" says one. No, I do not. But; when a woman begins to dispute me, about nine times out of ten I get up and say, "Go it," and then go off about my business; and if ever I am so foolish as to quarrel with a woman, I ought to be whipped; for you may always calculate that they will have the last word.”

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”

“Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?”

“The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.”