You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Evil is whatever distracts.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the ‚Age War.‘ The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

The Internet is a big distraction.

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.

The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

Silver is used in the electronics industry and is consumed daily; stock piles of silver are dwindling.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Law, without force, is impotent.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Nature has always had more force than education.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

I believe we live in a love-starved society. Everywhere you go there are probably people who haven’t had the right kind of love in their lives.

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.