Adulation Quote by Nelson Mandela

To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless,…

— Tariq Ali

Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to…

— George Washington

Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind…

— William Ellery Channing

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence…

— Russell Brand

Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory,…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting…

— Barack Obama

When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

— Brad Meltzer

“if someone merely wishes to provoke you, shake the dust from your feet and carry on. Fight only with a worthy opponent, and not…

— Paulo Coelho

“Violence and strength are the same thing. In all the history of all the worlds before this one, and in all the history of…

— Scott Sigler

“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

“We must renounce the gambit of "good" and "bad" - even in its inverted form. We must acknowledge that misapprehensions abound, that violence is…

— René Girard