Pope Francis Quotes

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.

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

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

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...

To correct senseless people, the sword has to be taken up.

Violence, indeed, is the child of suppression.

The insolent and overbearing conduct of the Southerners [slave-catchers], when on such errands to Pennsylvania, forced me to my course of action. They did not hesitate to break open doors, and to enter, without ceremony, the houses of colored men; and when refused admission, or when a manly and determined spirit was shown, they would present pistols, and strike and knock down men and women indiscriminately.

The art of power often involves brutality — and other offenses too.

Guys like the Monarch are not unique, and there are guys like him all over the world torturing dumb scientists.

The forces of violence and oppression don't care about the innocent.

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

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.

Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history. What is more, it is not simply crude power that triumphs abroad, but its exultant justification. The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing.

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

I not only weaken the opposition, I’m going to make them dead ... and if anyone is strong enough to try to hold a demonstration, I will beat all those dogs and put them in a cage.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.