Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory
“To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction”
Laws of Motion, III
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
Context: To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction; or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
“Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.”
Source: The Rise of Political Extremism and the Decline of Decency, April 8, 2010, US News http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2010/04/08/the-rise-of-political-extremism-and-the-decline-of-decency,
Context: It's part of a continuum. Whenever I interview someone at a protest carrying an "Obama is Hitler" sign, and I go up to ask to talk to them to see what they're thinking, invariably they've said, "Well, they started it. They called our president 'Hitler' and nobody complained." And the reality is that politics follows the lines of physics. Every action creates an equal and opposite reaction. And the extremes incite each other. What's especially frustrating to me is that we're talking about a relatively small group of people. There's a huge, untapped center in America that is frustrated with the agitated status quo. And, I think there's a real need to stand up.
Laws of Motion, III
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
September 1874, Popular Science Monthly Vol. 5, Article: The Alleged Antagonism Between Growth and Reproduction , p. 607
The Alleged Antagonism Between Growth and Reproduction (1874)
Source: The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Ch. V : The Development of the Character-Analytic Technique
“Sin is never in action, it is always in reaction.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
