Quotes about steel
A collection of quotes on the topic of steel, likeness, use, men.
Quotes about steel

“You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw”

"Some Thoughts on the Common Toad," Tribune (12 April 1946)
Sunday Times, 11 November 2007

"The Authority Principle" in No Gods, No Masters : An Anthology of Anarchism (1980) Daniel Guérin, as translated by Paul Sharkey (1998), p. 90
Context: I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

“A sledgehammer breaks glass but forges steel.”
"We do not change our course" (1938)

“Hear oh hear, if my prayer be worthy and such as you yourself might whisper to my frenzy. Those I begot (no matter in what bed) did not try to guide me, bereft of sight and sceptre, or sway my grieving with words. Nay behold (ah agony!), in their pride, kings this while by my calamity, they even mock my darkness, impatient of their father's groans. Even to them am I unclean? And does the sire of the gods see it and do naught? Do you at least, my rightful champion, come hither and range all my progeny for punishment. Put on your head this gore-soaked diadem that I tore off with my bloody nails. Spurred by a father's prayers, go against the brothers, go between them, let steel make partnership of blood fly asunder. Queen of Tartarus' pit, grant the wickedness I would fain see.”
Exaudi, si digna precor quaeque ipsa furenti
subiceres. orbum visu regnisque carentem
non regere aut dictis maerentem flectere adorti,
quos genui quocumque toro; quin ecce superbi
—pro dolor!—et nostro jamdudum funere reges
insultant tenebris gemitusque odere paternos.
hisne etiam funestus ego? et videt ista deorum
ignavus genitor? tu saltem debita vindex
huc ades et totos in poenam ordire nepotes.
indue quod madidum tabo diadema cruentis
unguibus abripui, votisque instincta paternis
i media in fratres, generis consortia ferro
dissiliant. da, Tartarei regina barathri,
quod cupiam vidisse nefas.
Source: Thebaid, Book I, Line 73

Letter to C.L. Moore (August 1936), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 574
Non-Fiction, Letters

Preface to the 2004 edition of Dreams from My Father, p. x
2004

Bata, Tomas. Knowledge in Action: The Bata System of Management. IOS Press, 1992.

It's a lot easier to play pinball than it is to make a pinball machine. (A comment concerning the difficulty of a "search for a good Darwinian search.")
Computer programs, including all of the models of Darwinian evolution of which I am aware, perform the way their programmers intended. Doing so requires the programmer infuse information about the program's goal. You can't write a good program without [doing so].
Your chances of winning the lottery are about the same whether or not you buy a ticket. It's better … if you give your money to me and I'll decide whether or not to give it back.
From the viewpoint of computer simulation, our universe does not contain the probabilistic resources to get a meaningful result for even a moderately sized unassisted [Darwinian] search. In fact, if you take ten to the one thousand of our universes in what is sometimes referred to as the multiverse, the probabilistic resources don't exist there either.
Let's abandon labels and pursue the truth no matter where it leads. Don't entrench yourself in a paradigm and claim a corner on truth. Many who have done so in history have been shown to be foolish.
"Darwin as the Pinball Wizard: Talking Probability with Robert Marks,", From an interview with Robert Crowther of the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute, March 03, 2010, 2010-05-03 http://www.idthefuture.com/2010/03/darwin_as_the_pinball_wizard_t.html,

perhaps a passive magnetism as well, but at least an active is there
Ulrichs in autobiographical manuscript of 1861, cited in Hubert Kennedy (1988), Ulrichs: The Life and Works of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. Pioneer of the Modern Gay Movement. Boston: Alyson. p. 44; As cited in: Kennedy (1997, 3)
United States of Banana (2011)

Plato, Republic IX: 586a-b
Plato, Republic

The Crisis No. I.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 7, Automation and Such, p. 177.

Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther (1930). Edison as I Know Him. Cosmopolitan Book Company. p. 15

Letter to "The Keicomolo"—Kleiner, Cole, and Moe (October 1916), in Selected Letters I, 1911-1924 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, p. 27
Non-Fiction, Letters

Quote from Dix' War Diary 1915–1916, Städtische Gallery, Albstadt, p. 25; as cited by Eva Karcher, Otto Dix, New York: Crown Publishers, 1987, p. 14

Anti-Slavery Speech (January 1852) http://books.google.com/books?id=SCpVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA22 Published in The Works of Wendell Phillips, Street & Smith (1902), p. 22-23
1850s

Foreword http://www.bartleby.com/55/100.html
1910s, Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)

S. M. Melamed, Spinoza and Buddha: Visions of a Dead God (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1933)
M - R

“To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.”
Attributed to Augustine by many sources on line, but without an actual reference.
Disputed
“I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.”
Source: Sandman Slim
“She has a steel exterior, but it protects a candyfloss heart.”
Source: The Nightingale

“Men are like steel — when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”
Though often attributed to Norris, this seems to have appeared as an anonymous proverb at least as early as 1961, in an edition of The Physical Educator
Misattributed
Source: Broken Wings

Source: Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
Source: Magic Bleeds
“Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.”
Source: The Floating Island

“I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.”
Source: The Well of Ascension
“He who whets his steel, whets his courage”
Source: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

“I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.”

“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”

“Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares!”
Source: The Atlantis Complex

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“You have never tasted freedom friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.”
Dienekes p. 60
Gates of Fire (1998)
Source: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

“Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks.”
Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
“My pleasure, sir.”
Source: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (p. 251).

“Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 436.

2000s, 2001, The Enemy is not Islam. It is Nihilism (2001)
"An Elementary School Classroom In A Slum"
Ruins and Visions (1942)

2010s, 2016, August, Speech at rally in Wilmington, North Carolina (August 9, 2016)

"Spiced Crambe", Liberty Bell magazine (March 1993)
1990s
Through Our Enemies' Eyes (p. 106).
2000s

About the flight of Jatwan and his death in battle, Kutbu-d din (general of Muhammad of Ghor). Hasan Nizami. Elliot and Dowson, Vol. II : Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, 8 Volumes, Allahabad Reprint, 1964. pp. 217-218. Also quoted in Jain, Meenakshi (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts.

“The scar of fire, the dint of steel,
Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.”
Canto II
The Troubadour (1825)

Source: Structure of American economy, 1919-1929, 1941, p. 141: as cited in: Frits Bos, " Three centuries of macro-economic statistics http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35391/1/Three_centuries_macroeconomic_statistics.pdf." (2011).

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999)

“Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel,
And death in ambush lay in every pill.”
The Dispensary, Canto IV, line 62.
"The Building of the Skyscraper" st. 1, 1965; Collected Poems of George Oppen", New Directions, 1976, ISBN 0-811-20615-7

Khazainul-Futuh by Amir Khusru, quoted in Khalji Kalina Bharata, Persian texts translated into Hindi by S.A.A. Rizvi, Aligarh, 1955. p. 156-157 ff
Quotes from the Khazainul-Futuh

“Instead of a government with steel in its backbone, we've got one with Steel in its pocket.”
Speech to the Conservative Party Conference (14 October 1977) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103443. The Labour government had entered into a Pact with the Liberal leader David Steel.
Leader of the Opposition

Source: Organizing a factory (1905), p. 1; First paragraph of the first chapter

Unguarded Gates; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Seize the Night (1999), Chapter 4; musings of Christopher Snow