Gaston Bachelard Quotes

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

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

If the opposition disarms, all is well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

What you gotta understand is, in this conversation and in our fight, you're not in control.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

The more force used, the less effective it is.

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

The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

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.

She attempted to turn again; I held on. I wasn't holding tight enough to keep her, but she wasn't pulling hard enough to get away.

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

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.

Let me go!” I snarl at him, trying to wrest my arm from his grasp. “I can’t,” he says.

You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.

I think in most couples or partnerships, there's a constant struggle for power and dominance.

Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.

I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

On one side, the forces of destruction, the forces of the desert, have risen, and on the other hand stand firm the forces of civilization, but we will not be stopped.