Accomplishing something Quote by Jim Butcher

“I'm going to use them to track him down and thwart him." "Thwart?" Sarissa asked. "Thwart." I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something…

— Jim Butcher

“Thwart: to prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person.”

— Jim Butcher

“Violence is one way to silence people, to deny their voice and their credibility, to assert your right to control over their right to…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Non-violence is called that when despite having the full power if someone does something to him, he does not do anything to that person.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Anything undertaken with honest intentions can be justly defended.”

— G. Willow Wilson

It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against…

— Robert Higgs

“You directed toward yourself a violence that you did not feel toward others. For them you reserved all your patience and tolerance.”

— Édouard Levé

“To guard oneself from presumption.”

— Stefan Zweig

“An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Emotional self-defense...Those who care so much, maybe too much, know that it takes wisdom and courage to sometimes say, “no” to others.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Any attempt to attack, defend, or withdraw will work against you. Instead, you must restrain these reactive tendencies, find the courage to stand your…

— Rick Brinkman

“This defence can only be achieved by killing or disabling the enemy.”

— W.E. Fairbairn