Chapter 22 of 48 · Students of Liberty by Leonard E. Read
Two Types of Action
However, the issue at stake is as grave as life itself, and this alone would seem to warrant my temerity. Two Types of Action As to action, how many types are there? Are there others than physical action and intellectual action? How could one create an absence of restraint - liberty - by using physical action except to use force against those who already engage in immoral restraint? To adopt this tactic, to employ physical force in any form or degree, except in self defense, would be merely to substitute a new form 29 of compulsion for the existing forms of compulsion, trad ing violence for violence - revolution! At best, it is the court of last resort and is not, really, what most persons have in mind when they insist they "want action." Most of them mean only that they want "something done," and done quickly! They "want to fightpeacefully." The thought never as much as enters their heads to use fists or guns.
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