Crime Quote by Rebecca Solnit

Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

— Mark Kingwell

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

— C. S. Lewis

Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

— Henri Nouwen

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

— Baron de Montesquieu

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

— Leo Tolstoy

I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim, that is,…

— Karl Popper

Well, let me just say that I condone violence in all of its forms.

— Daniel Cameron

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst.…

— Anonymous

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground…

— Edward Gibbon

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

— Charles de Secondat