Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

People are violent by nature. That’s why we rule the earth; we beat the crap out of everyone else.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Russia has been too weak, and the weak get beaten.

Power politics is another name for the law of the jungle.

You must either conquer and rule or lose and serve, suffer or triumph, and be the anvil or the hammer.

Don't be deceived. There is no justice but strength.

It might be, gentlemen, that the lion and the lamb would be down together, but ... the lamb would be inside the lion.

Move on over or we'll move on over you.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything, I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

Sometimes you have two egos—one on each side—and as you go up the escalation ladder, one of them may do something just to appear strong.

An aggressor will always push forward and do more until he meets resistance. We've seen that time and time again over history.

Mother always said that even when I was 3, I used to get the 6- and 7-year-old kids on the block and punch them and say, 'Listen to me.'

Our attitudes are fostered by a society built on ideas of dominance, where the solution to crises are force and action, rather than reflection and compromise.

The weakest goes to the wall.

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.