HarGobind Sahib Ji Quotes

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...

When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

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

The Sword and its law have existed from the beginning of the world. The use of force can never prevent heresy.

Americans should be treated as a naughty spaniel. If it snaps at you, hit it across the face.

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force.

That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.

A union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets … has no charm for me.

In the Guru's house religion and worldly enjoyment shall be combined—the caldron to supply the poor and the needy, and the scimitar to smite the oppressors.

Those who have no sense of right, reason or religion, have a natural propensity to make use of their strength to the destruction of such as are weaker than they.

Violence is a holy and historically progressive force.

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.

They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

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.

Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.