Force Quote by Denis Diderot

Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect…

— Hannah Arendt

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ...

— Seneca the Younger

Violence is not power, but the absence of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and…

— Dan Simmons

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant…

— Anonymous

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

— Hannah Arendt

Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.

— Khalil

Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting and long…

— Dalai Lama

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

— Kenneth Kaunda

Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the…

— Theodore Kaczynski

Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.

— Rollo May