Homily on Romans IV http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210204.htm
“One who by himself is mild enough and void of all offence will become terrible and fierce by being in bad company, and will most cruelly take the life of many men, and would kill many more if they were not hindered by bodies having no soul, that have come out of caverns — that is, breastplates of iron.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
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July 2017 http://www.npr.org/2017/07/08/536125111/life-as-a-drone-warrior, In a discussion with NPR radio host Scott Simon about the morality of targeting terrorists with drones.
“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”
Alan Hovhaness, Interview with Ararat Magazine http://www.hovhaness.com/Interview_Ararat.html, 1971.
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
Context: There came one who spoke of the shame of Jerusalem
And the holy places defiled;
Peter the Hermit, scourging with words.
And among his hearers were a few good men,
Many who were evil,
And most who were neither,
Like all men in all places.
[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 292]