Leo Tolstoy Quotes

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

Force is not a remedy.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

The very first essential for success is perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

Move on over or we'll move on over you.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.