Bully Quote by Steven Pinker

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

— Max Weber

Violence is a good tool to control people.

— Faizu

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is…

— Ayn Rand

Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the…

— Anonymous

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him…

— H. L. Mencken

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

— John Abizaid

A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would do it…

— Frances Harper

“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is…

— Ayn Rand

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

Police departments across the nation must develop nonviolent 'rules of engagement,' so that they don't reflexively respond to suspected crimes with violence. This will…

— Bernice King

The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.

— Leonard Read