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physical force

«The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations»
«If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America, painfully brief.»
«It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment»
«If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.»
«A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.»
«A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.»
«Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.»
«It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: ''We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer.''»
«Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.»
«Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.»

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