Force Quotes

“Earth's a howling wilderness,Truculent with fraud and force.”

“Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.”

“I hope I shall never see the daywhen the Force of Rightis deprived of the Right of Force.”

“The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.”

“Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.”

“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”

“Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.”

“Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of theothers. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.”

“Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.”

“We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.”

“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.”

“Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.”

“When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”

“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.”

“Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic”

“The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.”

“In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.”

“Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.”

“Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them in that conviction; and, therefore, affairs should be managed in such a way that when they no longer believe, they can be made to believe by force.”

“You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second.”

“Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.”

“We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who must use persuasion. In the second case, they always come to grief, having achieved nothing; when, however, they depend on their own resources and can force the issue, then they are seldom endangered.”

“All the armed prophets conquered; all the unarmed ones perished.”

“The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot”

“Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force.”