Causes Quote by Bhagat Singh

While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face…

— Albert Einstein

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

— Pierre Corneille

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

If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other hand, when…

— Dalai Lama

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.…

— Albert Bandura

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

— Ayn Rand

The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation…

— Ayn Rand

“The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force

— Thomas Sowell

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

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force

— Blaise Pascal

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of…

— Mahatma Gandhi