Quotes About Force

Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.

The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop.

Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.

Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man.

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.

And what would happen to my illusion that I am a force for order in the home if I wasn't married to the only man north of the Tiber who is even untidier than I am?

[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.

There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.