Quotes About Overthrows

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

Consider a man confined within his bounds, influenced by impressions, beset by ideas, till one day a growing passion overthrows his contemplative composure and destroys him.

Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.

The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.