Physical Force Quotes

• Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

  Ayn Rand

  Government, Use, Monopoly

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.204, Penguin

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• A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

  Wayne Dyer

  Positive, Happiness, Stay Strong

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 01, 2010

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• Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  March On Washington, Soul, Height

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Rights, Use

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.94, Penguin

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  Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Friendship, Change

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.50, Beacon Press

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• A government is the most dangerous threat to man

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Monopoly, Bill Of Rights

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.94, Penguin

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• It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Reflection, Words Of Wisdom

  On Old Age VI (transl. W. A. Falconer)

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• Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Strength, Spiritual

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10”, p.152, Best Books on

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  The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, Power, Libertarian Party

  On Liberty ch. 1 (1859)

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• The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Winning, Long

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1976.

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• All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Novelists, Use

  "The Virtue of Selfishness". Book by Ayn Rand, 1964.

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• I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical forces, in pure geometry, in color - are alike simply in that they all animate space. It is this animated space that has its functional effect upon the world, that determines the way things work, that governs the presence of harmony and life.

  Christopher Alexander

  Believe, Origin Of Life, Color

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• When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Faith, Men, Force

  Joseph Smith Jr. (2010). “Lectures on Faith”, p.74, Cedar Fort

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• Either the phone is so seriously thin and flimsy that it is bendable with mere physical force, which I cannot believe given the extensive tests Apple would have done. Or -- and this is far more plausible -- somehow the energy and excitement of the 10 million people who purchased iPhones has awakened their mind powers and caused the phones to bend.

  Uri Geller

  Believe, Iphone, Phones

  "Here’s the real reason iPhones are bending" by Jeremy Olshan, www.marketwatch.com. September 24, 2014.

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• Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Happiness, Spiritual, Powerful

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• When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.

  Agnes Smedley

  Girl, Law, West

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• The more you think you have to use physical force to control life, the less you control life.

  Cesar Millan

  Thinking, Use, Anarchy

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• Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate—do you hear me? no man may start—the use of physical force against others.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Long, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.108, Penguin

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• Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.

  Roger Penrose

  Ideas, Understanding, Gauges

  "Secrets of the Old One". Interview with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com.

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• Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Consciousness, Nervous, Process

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• When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.81, Penguin

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• Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive another of his life, or enslave him, or rob him, or prevent him from pursuing his own goals, or compel him to act against his own rational judgment.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Rights

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.314, Penguin

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• I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Believe, Son

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.99, A&C Black

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• Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.

  Percival Lowell

  Lying, Peculiar, Mars

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• The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a silent power. It moves in mysterious ways. It is noiseless. It makes no show of open opposition. It uses no methods of effort through tongue or arm or physical force.

  Prentice Mulford

  Moving, Effort, Mind

  Prentice Mulford (2012). “Your Forces And How To Use Them (Complete Annotated Edition)”, p.203, Jazzybee Verlag

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