Commit Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

“We are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as if it…

— Edmund Burke

“Governments strong enough to protect individuals against the violence of their fellows make possible the evolution of an increasingly complex order of spontaneous and…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and…

— Henry David Thoreau

As government imposes the will of a few upon the many, the many begin to resist. Ultimately, it becomes necessary for the government to…

— Charlie Kirk

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.

— Barbara Deming

“Unjust systems perpetuate themselves by means of institutionalized violence.”

— Walter Wink

Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives…

— Howard Zinn

Violence is a carrier of self-will

— Anonymous

The violence of our time is caused by obedience.

— Howard Zinn

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice…

— Steven Pinker

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

— Leo Tolstoy

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

— Thomas Jefferson