H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

Might was the measure of right.

Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth.

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

I know people fear me when they see me in their mirrors. It's a good position to be in because they know they need to defend to the limit.

In this world, all power rests upon force.

Only force rules. Force is the first law

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

I will have you removed if you don't stop. I have a little system of my own.

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

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance.

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

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

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.

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

Arabs respect only the language of force.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

No man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others.

All political questions, all matters of right, are at bottom only questions of might.

Our rulers do wrong from choice and right from necessity.

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