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Quotes About Force

We continue to advocate and demand that the territorial integrity of both Ukraine and Georgia be preserved... It is absolutely unacceptable that in the 21st century, Russia is shifting borders in Europe by force.
~ Andrzej Duda
A militarized police force facing down innocent protesters with sniper rifles and machine guns is totally unacceptable in America.
~ William Lacy Clay, Jr.
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
~ Sigmund Freud
Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force.
~ Santiago Calatrava
You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.
~ Kofi Annan
It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.
~ Voltaire
You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.
~ Richard M. Nixon
With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist.
~ Gunther Blumentritt
War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
~ Wendell Phillips
There are some who feel like - that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on! We've got the force necessary.
~ George W. Bush
The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
~ Norman Cousins
It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.
~ William H. Seward
A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.
~ Vladimir Yakunin
The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.
~ Walter Raleigh
I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force.
~ Trey Parker
War knows no law except that of might.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.
~ Madeleine Albright
Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.
~ Toni Morrison
In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.
~ William James
Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites. ... There is a war between good and
~ Michael O'Brien
War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.
~ Wesley Clark
The Lord of the Rings trilogy restored the balance in the Force after the Star Wars prequels ruined everything that was awesome about being a nerd at the movies.
~ Wil Wheaton
It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.
~ Voltaire
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.
~ Ayn Rand