Politics Quote by Erika Ilves

[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to…

— Rudolph Rummel

“Victims becoming torturers is such a classic historical pattern that we could formulate, regarding any revolution whatever, this iron law : combat oppression; beware…

— Pascal Bruckner

“Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone…

— Ludwig von Mises

“During the twentieth century, communist governments killed some 100 million of their own people in peacetime, either by repression or by famine.”

— Charles Wheelan

“And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of people who were the obedient witnesses of…

— Vasily Grossman

“It has been reliably established that from 1933 to 1945 millions of innocent people were systematically slaughtered on command. Gas chambers were built, death…

— Stanley Milgram

“The world has far too much morality. If you added up all the homicides committed in pursuit of self-help justice, the casualties of religious…

— Steven Pinker

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170…

— Walter E. Williams

This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality…

— John M Swomley

“Amazingly, prison sentences for murderers have now been lessened in at least two cases because it was argued that the criminal, having the “warrior…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail,…

— Noam Chomsky