![]() ![]() Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. ![]() Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Martin Luther Kind Jr.: "The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting." A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident for, with a very few examples, he will be more merciful than those who, from excess of tenderness, allow disorders to arise, from whence spring murders and rapine for these as a rule injure the whole community, while the executions carried out by the prince injure only one individual From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved more than feared, or feared more than loved. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness. Niccolò Machiavelli: "I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel.Niccolò Machiavelli: "Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.".And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power, but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more." ![]() Thomas Hobbes: "In the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.George Orwell: "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.".Frantz Fanon: "Violence is man re-creating himself.". ![]()
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