Claire Wolfe Quotes

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

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.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Force is not a remedy.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

No man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others.

Repel force by force

Violence is the only way to answer violence.

If the oppressor uses peaceful means, the oppressed will never resort to violence. But if the oppressor uses violence, then the oppressed have no other alternative than violence—to retaliate with similar forms.

Violence is the only language understood by Mr. Lloyd George and his ministers.

This non-violent stuff ain’t no good. It’ll get you killed.

I would shoot him in self defense.

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.

No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such violence; that is, only defensively against the aggressive violence of another. In short, no violence may be employed against a non-aggressor. Here is the fundamental rule from which can be deduced the entire corpus of libertarian theory.

Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish.

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.

Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.

Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive another of his life, or enslave him, or rob him, or prevent him from pursuing his own goals, or compel him to act against his own rational judgment.

Love does not imply pacifism.

So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him by force. It is only as retaliation that force may be used and only against the man who starts its use. No, I do not share his evil or sink to his concept of morality: I merely grant him his choice, destruction, the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.