Deals Quote by Ayn Rand

[T]here is a vast difference in the attitude of a man with a gun in his hand and that of one without a gun…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

— Ayn Rand

Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own…

— Ludwig von Mises

If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a…

— Epictetus

You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

— Ayn Rand

“It is just as often the case, however, that men are violent solely from expedience, because they believe in no higher law than the…

— David Bentley Hart

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

— Leo Tolstoy

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion…

— Horatio Nelson

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them…

— Gertrude Stein

Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.

— Jack Donovan