"He who achieves power by violence does..." - Quote by Thomas Aquinas
He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.
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“There can be no joy in living without joy in work.”
“It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.”
“Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.”
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“Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.”
“All reactionaries are paper tigers.”
“My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.”
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“Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.”
“Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.”
“You're going to have a racial explosion, and a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion. It's going to explode because black people are dissatisfied; they're dissatisfied not only with the white man, but they're dissatisfied with these Negroes who have been sitting around here posing as leaders and spokesmen for black people and actually making the problem worse instead of making the problem better.”