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“Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.”

People Seems Form Rights Violence Worst Including Tyranny

Book:The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

Source: The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

“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, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.”

Mean Fighting Causes Justice Democracy Violence Becoming Meaningful Tyranny Oppression Cycles Combat Ruthless Fanaticism Cycle Of Violence

Book:The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity

Source: The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity

“To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.”

Violence Achieve Tyranny Length Nazi

Author:Winston Churchill

“God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence; but the world shows no indications of such a benevolent and holy Providence. This earth appears to be a hell, or at best a planet condemned -- a sort of purgatory: it is filled with violence, tyranny and injustice, and yet God, if he exist, is absolute sovereign, and has willed that things should be as they are! -- Therefore there is no God.”

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

Long Violence Benefits Tyranny Abhorrent

Book:The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age

Source: The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age

“The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim, that is, to bring about a state of affairs which makes reforms without violence possible.”

Should States Use Violence Impossible Atheism Should Have Aim Affair Positive Atheism Tyranny Reform Justified

Book:The Open Society and Its Enemies

Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies

“Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.”

Violence Betrayal Tyranny Rome Betrayed

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“In Russia, whatever be the appearance of things, violence and arbitrary rule is at the bottom of them all. Tyranny rendered calm by the influence of terror is the only kind of happiness which this government is able to afford its people.”

People Kind Government Able Violence Influence Bottom Calm Terror Appearance Russia Tyranny Arbitrary

Author:Marquis de Custine

“If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.”

Ifs Men World Kind May Hands Desire Violence Honest Benefits Lays Sake Quitting Violent Tyranny Innocent Honest Man Oppressors Robbers

Book:Two treatises of government

Source: Two treatises of government

“We have become the new american slaves: but there is a revolution coming. It is a revolution of individual liberty. It will free us without violence. It will begin with the self. It will spread to the workplace. It will turn our corporate masters into our servants. It will free us of government's tyranny. The revolution will spread to all corners of the nation, and at last, we shall be free.”

Self Government Lasts Turns Individual Nations Liberty Violence Masters Revolution Slave Corners Spread Tyranny Corporate Servant Workplace Individual Liberty

Author:Gerry Spence