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Quotes About Force

Aphrodite just kept smiling.Because she was just doing what a goddess does-the same way that a tornado rips houses apart or a fire burns down a forest.
~ L.J. Smith, Spellbinder
violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature.
~ Sanober Khan
Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
~ B. B. King
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
~ Edmund Burke
Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.
~ Walter Russell
The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
~ Andre Malraux
Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.
~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali
The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
~ William Penn
In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
~ Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism
Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Peace through superior firepower.
~ John Ringo
The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.
~ Garet Garrett
The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
~ Carlos Salinas de Gortari
We are that which activates the body.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.
~ Albert Einstein
Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.
~ Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism
Our country [America] is still the strongest force for peace and freedom on earth.
~ William J. Clinton
Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force.
~ Gregory Maguire
Peace's gravitational force – a force of possibility!" from Cinderella In Focus
~ H.L. Balcomb
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.
~ Ayn Rand
Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.
~ Emma Goldman
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.
~ Ayn Rand