Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power -- the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions and guns…

— Leo Tolstoy

“What was the power that induced strong soldiers to put off their jackets and shirts, and present their hands to be tied up, and…

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

“...only those who have the will and the power to shoot down their fellow men, are the real rulers in this, as in all…

— Lysander Spooner

“Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be…

— James Madison

“We are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as if it…

— Edmund Burke

“In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive…

— Ronald Wright

“Inherent in the power to make men free by force is the power to enslave them again,”

— Michael Bunker

“stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgement of the law is one of the most significant tributes…

— Ann Tusa

The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.

— Rajneesh

“We have to hand it to the little tyrants who devise the picturesque abuses of authority that give the moral populace the clear examples…

— John Popielaski

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

— Henry Clarke Wright

“Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel