Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne BradstreetStichwörter: wisdom oppression force authority brute-force
Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.
Stichwörter: humor technology force gun firepower might_makes_right
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
Jacob BronowskiStichwörter: wisdom knowledge power nature understanding force
There was just such a man when I was young—an Austrian who invented a new way of life and convinced himself that he was the chap to make it work. He tried to impose his reformation by the sword, and plunged the civilized world into misery and chaos. But the thing which this fellow had overlooked, my friend, was that he had a predecessor in the reformation business, called Jesus Christ. Perhaps we may assume that Jesus knew as much as the Austrian did about saving people. But the odd thing is that Jesus did not turn the disciples into storm troopers, burn down the Temple at Jerusalem, and fix the blame on Pontius Pilate. On the contrary, he made it clear that the business of the philosopher was to make ideas available, and not to impose them on people.
T.H. WhiteStichwörter: free-will war jesus ideas force hitler philosphy reformation ideas-are-power might
What would you have? Your gentleness shall force
More than your force move us to gentleness.
Stichwörter: compassion shakespeare food peace romance comedy force conflict aggression gentleness
Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.
Orson Scott CardStichwörter: manipulation force fighting
Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your god, your great Bel, your fish-tailed Dagon, rises before me as a demon. You, and such as you, have raised him to a throne, put on him a crown, given him a sceptre. Behold how hideously he governs! See him busied at the work he likes best -- making marriages. He binds the young to the old, the strong to the imbecile. He stretches out the arm of Mezentius and fetters the dead to the living. In his realm there is hatred -- secret hatred: there is disgust -- unspoken disgust: there is treachery -- family treachery: there is vice -- deep, deadly, domestic vice. In his dominions, children grow unloving between parents who have never loved: infants are nursed on deception from their very birth: they are reared in an atmosphere corrupt with lies ... All that surrounds him hastens to decay: all declines and degenerates under his sceptre. Your god is a masked Death.
Charlotte BrontëStichwörter: injustice women society death marriage hatred hypocrisy decay force family-relationships expectations unhappiness idolatry discord vice matrimony disparity preconceptions demons scorn social-norms married-life false-belief families lovelessness disgust contempt captivity domestic-life worldliness disharmony unfreedom
Can violence and the use of force to effect change upon the universe be left to the young? Do they see what was, what is, and what might yet be? Have they suffered, watched evil fall upon the good, or good upon the evil?
Or should the burden of violence be left to those who can bear it most lightly—upon those who have closed their minds or their feelings? How can they understand the suffering that they must inflict?
Should the burden of force be laid upon the short-lived, who will not see the consequences of their actions? How can they dispense force with compassion if they can escape the knowledge of what they do?...
The greater the force brought to bear, the older and wiser must be the entity who wields it. Wisdom allows sorrow. Age allows experience, and knowledge reinforces wisdom and experience....
Those who would bear the burden of force must be those who are strong and do not seek it, for those who seek force would misuse it, and those who are weak would shy from what they must do....
Findings of the Colloquy
[Translated from the Farhkan]
1227-E.N.P.
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...
Ayn RandStichwörter: life causality liberty love reason wealth freedom society philosophy sex tyranny atheism america capitalism economics usa political-philosophy drugs crisis law government force slavery economy constitution trade jobs commerce rock-and-roll regulation pursuit-of-happiness volition individual-rights objective-law
Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.
Criss JamiStichwörter: truth honesty man lies peace war mankind lying secrecy force run dishonesty bitterness resistance repression dangerous tension pressure suppression feuds rivalry
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