Violence/war

Famous quotes containing the words violence and/or war:

“In Russia, whatever be the appearance of things, violence and arbitrary rule is at the bottom of them all. Tyranny rendered calm by the influence of terror is the only kind of happiness which this government is able to afford its people.”
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)

“Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)