Norman Angell Quotes

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.

My experience and what scant understanding of politics I possess have convinced me that our peoples will only find well-being under compulsion; but my repugnance for compulsion is so great that I am loath to employ it even to achieve their well-being.

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...

You have your pens, Gentlemen, and I have my bayonets. You write with one and I will put the other to work.

Evil must be confronted in its womb, and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.

In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.

You use force, you create fear. Fear destroys trust. Trust is the basis of harmony. The hardliner believes harmony and unity can be brought by force. That's totally unscientific, totally wrong.

The coercive power of government is always a beacon to those who want to dominate others -- summoning the worst dregs of society to Washington to use that power to impose their will upon others.

The unity is brought about by force .

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

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

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

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.

Violence is the weapon of the weak.

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.

Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.

Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.

Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

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

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

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

The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.