Agitation Quote by Benjamin Tucker

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Barbara Deming

There are some whose only reason for inciting war is to use it as a means to exercise their tyranny over their subjects more…

— Desiderius Erasmus

The violence of our time is caused by obedience.

— Howard Zinn

It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will…

— Benjamin Tucker

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.

— Friedrich Schiller

The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas [enlightened heroes and heroines]…

— Dalai Lama

We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting…

— Barack Obama

Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it…

— Bhagat Singh

Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only…

— Dalai Lama