Activity Quote by Ludwig von Mises

States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive -…

— Arundhati Roy

“In fact, if a man is forced to resort to violence to achieve his ends, whether in his own household, his estates, or his…

— Sarah Woodbury

“There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so…

— George Orwell

Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever…

— Arundhati Roy

The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“[O]ne cannot separate violence from the very exist­ ence of the state (as the apparatus of class domination): from the standpoint of the'subordinated and…

— Slavoj Žižek

“It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve…

— Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs…

— Henry David Thoreau

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.”

— Charles Dudley Warner

“We can understand an attempt to ignore power as being just for the right of the people when conditions demand it. It's a very…

— Slavoj Žižek

The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-violent policies have been taken as a green light for…

— Nelson Mandela