Louis L'Amour Quotes

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

I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

People.. .love to say that 'Violence never solved anything.' But what solved Hitler? Was It a team of social workers? Was it putting daisies into the gun barrels of Nazi Panzer divisions? Was it a commission that tried to understand what made Hitler sorry? ?No. What solved Hitler was violence.

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.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.

Enough with the slaughters. Enough with the violence. Enough with the hatred in Iraq!

If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

I don't support violence, period.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace.

Repel force by force

There is a difference between myself and some of the peace people in Europe: whereas they think that the ultimate evil in the world is war, I think the ultimate evil in the world is aggression, and aggression sometimes must be repelled by force.

On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.