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

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

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

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.

Law, without force, is impotent.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

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.

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

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.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

Nature has always had more force than education.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I laugh and joke, but I don’t get distracted very easily.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

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

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

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.

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

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

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

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.

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.

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.

Evil is whatever distracts.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

A life of stasis would be population control, combined with energy rationing. That is the stasis world that you live in if you stay. And even with improvements in efficiency, you’ll still have to ration energy. That, to me, doesn’t sound like a very exciting civilization for our grandchildren’s grandchildren to live in.