Forceful Control Quotes

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.

The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Our action will have to be very violent in order to crush a strong and well-organized enemy [the Republicans] as soon as possible. Hence, all leaders of political parties, societies or unions not pledged to our movement will be imprisoned. Such people will be administered exemplary punishment [usually shot] so that movements of rebellion or strikes will be strangles.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.

The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in the state will never be convinced that dangerous reasoning ought not to be suppressed in some way.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.

For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying

With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature.

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.