Forceful Tactics Quotes

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.

You have your pens, Gentlemen, and I have my bayonets. You write with one and I will put the other to work.

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

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

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

Menace not intended is an engine which Great Britain could never condescend to employ.

We can never allow people who use nondemocratic means, people who use violence instead of arguments, people who use knives instead of debates, we can never allow them to set the agenda.

If you are strong, and if you have a strong logic, you can convince people by your ideas. Torture means your logic is very weak, so you need power to impose on others.

We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.

Being daily better informed about their knowledge than my adversaries themselves, I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

When in doubt, use brute force.

On their side the workers had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets.

My game was all about strength and mauling opponents.

Ground troops... have to be a last resort. I think they should always be a last resort.

Never go easy on allies if you ahve to take them down. Especially allies. You’re already fighting the urge not to hurt them. Counteract that and hit them with everything you’ve got.

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.

In America, they say, you can take a horse to the pond, but you can't make him drink. My way is different. I only take the horse to the pond to make him drink. If he doesn't, I'll cut his head off.

Desperate times require desperate measures. Violence is not only the answer. It is the only answer.

Whatever I tackle I like to attack a situation, hit it head on, go for it.

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest

The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.

People understand the simplicity of violence, and martial arts has always been about the more efficient way to deliver said violence upon an adversary. I've kept that philosophy as the focal point of what I do.

There is no game like the direct attack. Fancy strokes, while effective to watch, do not bring the results a fast driving game does.