The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

Alfred North Whitehead
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  2. As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power. - James Rozoff

  3. It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong. - Otto Von Bismarck

  4. The worship of power is an old religion. - George Santayana

  5. What a curious power words have. - Tadeusz Borowski

More Quotes By Alfred North Whitehead
  1. Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.

  2. The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural...

  3. Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenth-century Age of Reason in...

  4. Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.

  5. In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

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