Force Quote by William Graham Sumner Download Open image “The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.” — William Graham Sumner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Force Forging Mass War
So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that… — William James Copy Share Image
There has always been war. War is raging throughout the world at the present moment. And there is little reason to believe that war… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war. — Robert Aumann Copy Share Image
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Throughout the entire course of history, warfare is always changing. — Andre Beaufre Copy Share Image
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Can anyone imagine that the masterfulness, the overbearing disposition, the greed of gain, and the ruthlessness in methods, which are the faults of the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
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