Lakota Sioux Indian Tribe Quotes

Force is not a remedy.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

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

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

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

One authority, one gun…

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

Between the people and their enemies there can be nothing in common but the sword; we must govern by iron those who cannot be governed by justice; we must oppress the tyrant...

A man with a club is a law-maker.

A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire

Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.

Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.

Repression is fantastic.

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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.