Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force."
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Unarmed
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Aristotle
Philosopher
"Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved."
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible."
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"All the armed prophets conquered; all the unarmed ones perished."
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed."
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"Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]"
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"... the unarmed power of naked truth."
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