Ability Quote by Ramon Magsaysay

“Defending democracy" also sounds fine; but to defend democracy by military means, one must be militarily efficient and one cannot become militarily efficient without…

— Aldous Huxley

It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning…

— Max Lerner

Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that…

— Samuel Adams

We cannot have a separate group of people that are military and a separate civilian society. Otherwise, it's dangerous to democracy.

— John McCain

Military force can't defeat ideology.

— Anne Applebaum

Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life, and that…

— John Dewey

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

— Robert Baer

Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may…

— Vladimir Lenin

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The military defeat of an oppressive regime is important, but it does not answer our problems. It is where our problems begin, since social…

— Nigel Gibson

Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the…

— Kofi Annan