Albert Pike Quotes

No violent extreme endures.

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

Ride the air In whirlwind.

I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force.

Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history. What is more, it is not simply crude power that triumphs abroad, but its exultant justification. The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing.

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

I have never put a gun to anyone's head to obligate him to marry me.

You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.

The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed, roused Mr Rochester at last though it was dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water. 'Is there a flood?' he cried

Violence is just, where kindness is vain.

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.

It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.