Ibn al-Munayyr -

 The good war, which attains its complete objective, is the one involving deception, not confrontation, for confrontation involves danger, while deception achieves victory without risk.

Saul Alinsky -

 They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

Nietzsche -

 They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

Margaret Thatcher -

 We have harboured those who hated us, tolerated those who threatened us and indulged those who weakened us.

Rowan Atkinson -

To criticise a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous but to criticise their religion, that is a right. Indeed, a duty, in my view.

The concept that certain ideas can be protected by law from criticism or ridicule is deeply damaging to intellectual discourse.

If you cannot criticise or ridicule an idea, then you cannot properly evaluate it. And if you cannot properly evaluate an idea, then you are not truly free to think about it.

That is why laws that protect religious beliefs from insult or ridicule are not just misguided, they are positively oppressive

Mark Steyn -

 Our tolerance of our own tolerance is making us intolerant of other people’s intolerance, which is intolerable. And, unlikely as it sounds, this has now become the highest, most rarefied form of multiculturalism. So you’re nice to gays and the Inuit? Big deal. Anyone can be tolerant of fellows like that, but tolerance of intolerance gives an even more intense frisson of pleasure to the multiculti masochists.

Thomas Jefferson -

 A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.