->''Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt'''

->''Aki Ra is a Cambodian guy who goes out into the jungle and disarms landmines with a pocketknife and a really sharp stick.''
-->-- '''Website/BadassOfTheWeek'''[='=]s opening line on [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/aki-ra Aki Ra]]

->'''Martin Luther King:''' [[NWordPrivileges Nigga]], we got more beef than one of your sacred cows./ But I'm about to forgive you so hard right now.\\
'''Gandhi:''' I am passively resisting the fact that you suck./ I am celibate because I don't give a [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]].
-->-- ''Webvideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory''

->''That said, it may come as a surprise to hear that amassing towering piles of limbless corpses while riding on the back of a nuclear-powered buzzsaw-rocket isn't necessarily a prerequisite for badassitude. In fact, in the case of Paul Rusesabagina, the exact opposite is true; this fearless hardass actually risked his life to prevent machete-wielding maniacs from going [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Voorhees]] on everything with a pulse by standing up to heavily-armed thugs time and time again, even when the situation seemed insanely hopeless – an act of bravery that requires a gigantic, planet-sized nutsack and an incredible display of testicular fortitude that makes this man a total badass in his own right.''
-->-- '''Website/BadassOfTheWeek''' on [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/rusesabagina?rq=ruse Paul Rusesabagina]]

->''Despite being gifted with the body of an explosive predator, I refuse to take a life. This characteristic, which should earn me praise among humanitarian social circles has somehow been mistaken for cowardice when I'm faced with an insect. I don't avoid killing out of a love for all creatures, because, suffice it to say, some animals just suck. I avoid it because the fight wouldn't be fair and I am nothing if not honor-bound.''
-->-- '''Soren Bowie'''

->''I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.''
-->-- '''[[UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi Mohandas Gandhi]]'''

->''Meet Hawa Abdi. A woman who has never raised her fist in anger against another human being, but also one who could perform three C-sections on dirt-poor women, wash her hands, then go straight outside, stare down an army of gun-toting hardcore fanatical Somali militiamen, and with four words send them running for their lives on a light-speed rainbow of shame and self-loathing without even fucking blinking. A woman once appropriately described once as "one part Mother Teresa, one part Franchise/{{Rambo}}."''
-->-- '''Website/BadassOfTheWeek''' on [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/abdi Hawa Abdi]]

->''"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."''
-->-- '''Scout''', ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird''

->''"To our most bitter opponents we say: 'We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We shall meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will, and we shall continue to love you.'"''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr'''

->'''Captain Picard:''' One other thing: [[ProperlyParanoid Maxwell was right]]. Those ships were not carrying scientific equipment, were they? A "research station" within arm's reach of three Federation sectors? "Cargo ships" running with high-energy subspace fields that jam sensors?\\
'''Gul Macet:''' If you believed that the transport ship was carrying weapons, Captain...why didn't you board it as Maxwell requested?\\
'''Captain Picard:''' I was here to protect the peace. A peace that I firmly believe is in the interest of both of our peoples. If I had attempted to board that ship, I'm quite certain that you and I would not be having this pleasant conversation--and that ships on both sides would now be arming for war.\\
'''Gul Macet:''' Captain, I assure you...\\
'''Captain Picard:''' Take this message to your leaders, Gul Macet: ''"We'll be watching."''
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E12TheWounded The Wounded]]"

->''She does not bend or break or run away\\
She does not brave the war, but she saves the day''
-->-- "She Does Not Brave The War", by '''Music/MyBrightestDiamond'''

->''"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill."''
-->-- '''[[Literature/TheArtOfWarSunTzu Sun Tzu]]'''

->'''Bulk:''' I want ''you''...to tell ''us''...how to '''''beat people up!'''''\\
'''Skull:''' '''''WAAAH!'''''\\
''(he strikes a dramatic karate pose while Jason stares blankly)''\\
'''Jason:''' Martial arts...was ''not'' developed to hurt others.
-->--''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', "Day of the Dumpster"

->'''Manco:''' It ends here and now, Django. You can threaten me with weapons all you like. I'm unarmed. I'm not a warrior...I'm the Wordslinger. My only weapon is a word, and that word is "No."
-->--''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel "Night of the Humans."

-> '''[[UsefulNotes/JackieRobinson Jackie]]:''' You want a player who doesn't have the guts to fight back?
-> '''Rickey:''' No. I want a player who's got the guts ''not'' to fight back.
-->-- ''Film/FortyTwo''

->''Being the guy who almost single-handedly ensured that the Germans were completely unprepared for the Allied invasion of Normandy is pretty damn impressive. Doing it without so much as lifting a rifle is so badass that I think I just crapped.''
-->-- ''Website/BadassOfTheWeek'', on [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/garcia?rq=Pujol Juan Pujol García]]

->''"The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them."''
-->-- '''Creator/GeneRoddenberry'''

->''Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. On the contrary: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.''
-->-- [[Literature/TheBible Romans 12:19-21]]

-> ''"PACIFIST CRUSH! KINDNESS TO ALL MANKIND KICK!"''
-->-- Prince Philionel El Di Seyruun, ''Literature/{{Slayers}}''

->''HUMAN CASUALTIES: 0.0''
-->-- '''T-800''' after unloading a gatling gun on an army of cops, ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''

->''"The most convenient thing for the government would be to kill the non-resistant by flogging him to death or some other means, as was done in former days. But to put a man openly to death because he believes in the creed we all confess is impossible. To let a man alone who has refused obedience is also impossible. And so the government tries either to compel the man by ill-treatment to renounce Christ, or in some way or other to get rid of him unobserved, without openly putting him to death, and to hide somehow both the action and the man himself from other people. And so all kinds of shifts and wiles and cruelties are set on foot against him. They either send him to the frontier or provoke him to insubordination, and then try him for breach of discipline and shut him up in the prison of the disciplinary battalion, where they can ill treat him freely unseen by anyone, or they declare him mad, and lock him up in a lunatic asylum. They sent one man in this way to Tashkend--that is, they pretended to transfer to the Tashkend army; another to Omsk; a third him they convicted of insubordination and shut up in prison; a fourth they sent to a lunatic asylum."''
-->-- '''Creator/LeoTolstoy''', ''The Kingdom of God is Within You''
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