The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the men who just wanted to be left alone.”
― Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
I’ve read it before but never saved it. That has changed now too. Thx.
Excellent quote!
Similar in tone to the poem “The wrath of the awakened Saxon”
https://www.europeanamericansunited.org/school1/Fiction/kipling/awakened.htm