Force Quotes

“These never cease their continual exchange, now through Love all coming together into one, now again each carried apart by the hatred of Strife.”

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

“Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.”

“For my own part, I must say that I have no patience with the hypothesis of abstract forces.”

“Where force is necessary, there it is just.”

“The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.”

“Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.”

“If you're going to shoot, shoot to kill.”

“War is an act of force, and there is no logical limit to the application of that force.”

“Civilization is the process of reducing the element of force in human affairs.”

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

“You cannot stop a rifle bullet with a pillow.”

“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.”

“Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.”

“Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.”

“The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.”

“War is a contention by force.”

“Nobody has the moral right to seek his own advantage by force. This is the one enduring principle that separates the ethics of the civilized man from the ethics of the savage.”

“Force rests on a moral basis of its own. It is the force of the majority against the minority, the force of the state against the individual.”