David Hewson Quotes

If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

That power which had both the purse and the sword, had the government of the whole country, and might extend its powers to any and to every object.

Sovereignty and kingship are never decided by academic debate. They are seized by force.

The very first essential for success is perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

I've always been a dominant and violent person.

Having a weapon like that means you're pretty much in control of events. Nobody's going to argue with a flaming sword.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission.

Grab whom you must. Do what you want.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted UncleTom than she knocked him off his bicycle and told him.

Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.

The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the contrary, with the passing of the dominance of the State, the genuine life-enhancing forces of the nation will be liberated.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission?

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

When you've got your man down, rub him out.

Force is not a remedy.