Adversaries Quote by Ludwig von Mises

“No violence; violence is the proof of weakness.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right and another wrong.”

— Eckhart Tolle

“there is virtually no credible social science evidence to support the idea that violence in societies can be effectively addressed in the absence of…

— Gary A. Haugen

“Violent ideologies follow their own logic, the logic that sustains the system - a convoluted logic that unravels when it, itself, is labeled.”

— Melanie Joy

“Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from its subjects.…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“When it came to dealing with feral dissidents, there was only one unwritten law that superseded all others: "An' it secure a conviction, do…

— H.M. Forester

“There are people that are convinced of the wickedness both of armies and of police forces, but who are nevertheless much more intolerant and…

— George Orwell

“Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible…

— Alexander Berkman

“Violence is compelling and ineffective, it can be ascertained, as one becomes an expert at it.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“They forgot that the strike was in this instance the consequence of want and need, suffered unjustly, as the endurers believed; for, however insane,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“It is a weary lament to lay most acts of violence and aggression, from the strictly local to the truly global, squarely at the…

— Bryan Sykes

“The notion that you can somehow defeat violence by submitting to it is simply a flight from fact. As I have said, it is…

— George Orwell