“We remember the refrain from the Phillippines: ‘Underneath the starry flag/Civilize him with a Krag /And then get underway for home sweet home.’ But you have to civilize him first, and how you do that with the ragheads is the problem.”
Cooper in Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries October 2003, Vol. 11, No. 12.
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King's words after a bomb was thrown into his house in Alabama, on 30 January 1956, in Stride Toward Freedom (1958)
1950s
Context: If you have weapons, take them home; if you do not have them, please do not seek to get them. We cannot solve this problem through retaliatory violence. We must meet violence with nonviolence. Remember the words of Jesus: "He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword." We must love our white brothers, no matter what they do to us. We must make them know that we love them. Jesus still cries out in words that echo across the centuries: "Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; pray for them that despitefully use you." This is what we must live by. We must meet hate with love. Remember, if I am stopped, this movement will not stop, because God is with the movement. Go home with this glowing faith and this radiant assurance.
“And hie him home, at evening's close,
To sweet repast and calm repose.”
Source: Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=oopv (1754), Line 87
Source: Women and Economics (1898), Ch. 10.
“Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.”
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 133.
“Underneath my lashes I watched him, and I thought, Come back. Be the you I love and remember”
Source: It's Not Summer Without You
“Feeling sorry for him? Take him home with you! Put him to sleep on your own bed!”
Original: (pt) Tá com pena dele? Leva para tua casa! Põe para dormir na tua cama!
Source: [9 December 2009, Morre Luiz Carlos Alborghetti, dono do bordão 'bandido bom é bandido morto', https://extra.globo.com/tv-e-lazer/morre-luiz-carlos-alborghetti-dono-do-bordao-bandido-bom-bandido-morto-209786.html, Portuguese, Extra, Editora Globo S/A, 31 March 2019]
quote directed to Human Rights activists who supposedly defend criminals
“Civilization gets its first flower from the rebel.”
Source: Power and Innocence (1972), Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel
Context: The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful, is necessary if the society is to be saved from boredom and apathy. Obviously I do not refer to everyone who calls himself a rebel, but only to the authentic rebel. Civilization gets its first flower from the rebel.
“Besides, you think I'm not used to hurting? For me, it's home sweet home, my brother.”
Source: Lover Awakened