Anthony Trollope Quotes

Dive on them and squash them if you must.

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

All armed prophets have been victorious and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.

Policy is not made with papers or ceremonies. Policy is made with iron and blood.

All the armed prophets have conquered, all the unarmed have perished.

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

The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.

Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted UncleTom than she knocked him off his bicycle and told him.

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works." "It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered," quoth the raven.

War knows no law except that of might.

The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

Violence doesn't equal strength.

Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes

You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

Violence is just, where kindness is vain.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.