who said violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
Salvor Hardin His best-known maxim, "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent", became one of Isaac Asimov's favorite sayings.[1]
Shooting an Elephant The essay describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma. Because the locals expect him to do the job, he does so against his better judgment, his anguish increased by the elephant's slow and painful death. The story is regarded as a metaphor for British imperialism, and for Orwell's view that "when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys."[2]