#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.”

“Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.”

“Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.”

“Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.”

“War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.”

“When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.”

“It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.”

“Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.”

“Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.”

“Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.”

“Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.”

“Morality begins at the point of a gun.”

“Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.”

“If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.”

“Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.”

“Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.”

“Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.”

“We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”

“The unity is brought about by force .”

“Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.”

“If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.”

“You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.”

“The only real power comes out of a long rifle.”

“No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.”

“Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.”

“Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.”