Amanda Hocking Quotes

You wouldn't let him do it, would you, Jamie?" Jamie's expression was very serene. She stared at Andrew when she spoke to her husband. "With your permission, I would like to answer him." "You have it," Alec replied. "Andrew," she called out in a voice as cold and clear as a frigid winter morning, "my husband does whatever he wishes to do. I am sometimes allowed to help, though. If he decides to cut off your feet, I will, of course, offer him my assistance.

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

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

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.

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

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.

Force is not a remedy.

Dive on them and squash them if you must.

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

The way to have power is to take it.

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.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

Power never takes a back step—only in the face of more power.

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

Smash the lot of them …. Show them the fist. Prove yourself a sovereign. You are the autocrat and they should not dare to forget it.

If we think it necessary to wage war, we shall do so with or without your consent.

War is an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.

There’s no reason to respect anyone’s word in that part of the world. The only thing they respect is force and the threat of force.

Boys, I've just reminded Hubert that I've got his balls in my pocket.

Policy is not made with papers or ceremonies. Policy is made with iron and blood.