Lori Foster Quotes

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

To correct senseless people, the sword has to be taken up.

I got taught respect because if not, somebody's gonna make you respect them.

What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

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.

There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

Americans should be treated as a naughty spaniel. If it snaps at you, hit it across the face.

Unless you’re prepared to use force, it’s very difficult to deal with a person who understands only force.

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.

A union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets … has no charm for me.

Germans understand only force.

War is about killing on both sides until one side says I will do what you want me to do.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

… morality ends where the gun begins.

After you've watched your dad beat the crap out of Charlie King or some other bad guy in about forty movies, you pretty much always said, 'Yes, sir,' and meant it.

The violence of our time is caused by obedience.

Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.

Believe, obey, fight.

After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next door brought her down. He forced her knees to the road and suffered the penalty. He collected her punches as if they were presents. Her bony hands and elbows were accepted with nothing but a few short moans. He accumulated the loud, clumsy specks of saliva and tears as if they were lovely to his face, and more important, he was able to hold her down.