"Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished."

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Source : Alfred Thayer Mahan (1912). “Armaments and Arbitration, Or, The Place of Force in the International Relations of States”, p.105, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

#Power Quotes #Force Quotes

“An indictment is not a conviction.”
“Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation. NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a voice or two. Anyway, I find it abhorrent.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's a very difficult age when the forces of time want to destroy us and take us away. They're just snatching people like devils; death comes and grabs each of us.”

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“I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong.”
“And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.”
“Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.”
“When we meet a person truly in need, do we see the face of God?”
“I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.”

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