Dan Simmons Quotes

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

Sovereignty and kingship are never decided by academic debate. They are seized by force.

The very first essential for success is perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

All political questions, all matters of right, are at bottom only questions of might.

Boys, I've just reminded Hubert that I've got his balls in my pocket.

These cannon are my authority.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

As men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

… morality ends where the gun begins.

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

Having a weapon like that means you're pretty much in control of events. Nobody's going to argue with a flaming sword.

In this world, all power rests upon force.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

Grab whom you must. Do what you want.

Only force rules. Force is the first law