“Someone once wrote, ‘A bullet need happen only once, but for peace to work we need to be reminded of its existence again and again and again.’”— Barack Obama, whitehouse.gov
“It is one of the most obvious distinctions between power and violence that power always stands in need of numbers, whereas violence relying on instruments up to a point can manage without them. A legally unrestricted majority rule, that is, a democracy without a constitution, can be very formidable…”— Hannah Arendt, nybooks.com