Recoil/recoil - Momentum Energy and Impulse

Famous quotes containing the words recoil, energy and/or impulse:

    “Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    “Violence among young people ... is an aspect of their desire to create. They don’t know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.”
    —Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)

    “There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness—to bring him down to the miserable level of “good” men i.e., of stupid, cowardly and chronically unhappy men.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)