Spiro Agnew Quotes

[On urban unrest:] The only way to get respect is to be willing to use violence.

I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change?

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

This endless violence in the U.K. has to stop.

That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

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

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

'Come back here, I'm a police officer!' and I shouted back 'No you're not! You're a monster!'

Violence is the weapon of the weak.

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

Let us make war on the phrase 'violence doesn't solve anything.' It is a lie, and anyone who utters it cannot be taken morally seriously.

They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.

The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.

Kicking a police car? Really?' Caleb shrugged. 'Car offended me. It was sitting right where I wanted to stand. What would you do?

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.