violent means Quotes

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance

Violence is a holy and historically progressive force.

The only methods we shall employ will be English ones. The good old English fist.

Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.

That's the thing about terrorism - it works. Especially for the terrorists - they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying.

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

Some believe that the only way to remove the authoritarian regime and replace it with a democratic one is through violent means. I would like to set the precedent of political change through political settlement, not through violence.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

The pistol and Bowie knife are as sacred to us as the gown and the pulpit.

A gun will give you the body, not the bird

It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.

Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.

Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

I probably have a lot of blood on my hands, but that's not all bad. There's a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment.

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

Weapons are the tools of fear.

If bad institutions and bad men be got rid of only by killing, then the killing must be done.

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence. Also, I think that if you use the wrong means, the ends themselves get distorted.

When you begin to suggest that dissent, opposition, resistance, the only way to deal with it is not to listen to it and to engage in dialog with it, but basically to label it as anarchy and to repress it with the most violent, in the most violent means possible. I mean, that's essentially an element of neofascism. That's not about democracy.

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.