Quotes About Force

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.

The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

A gun is not an argument.

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.

Debate, but do not argue.Challenge, but do not force your opinions.To win an argument, but lose a friendship, is a loss.To lose an argument, but retain a friendship, is gain.

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.

High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!

Necessity is stronger far than art.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.

ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We're a life cult. Rock 'n' roll is a life force, and it's joy as an act of defiance.

Though Mexico had constitutions in the nineteenth century, they put few constraints on what Iturbide, Santa Ana, and Díaz could do. These men could be removed from power only the same way they had attained it: by the use of force. D

But dominance doesn't just originate from brute force or threats of violence. Any relation of unequal power, whether enforced by threats or by other social means, such as customs, will create a form of dominance, because it amounts to being

The people who suffer from the extractive economic institutions cannot hope for absolutist rulers to voluntarily change political institutions and redistribute power in society. The only way to change these political institutions is to force the elite to create more pluralistic institutions.

Unlike Iturbide, Santa Ana, and Díaz, however, none of these military men used force to get into power. Nor did they use force to avoid having to relinquish power. They abided by the Constitution.

He went like that," Spade said, "like a fist when you open your hand.

Too violent, you say? Shut up or I'll break your legs.

Black people are 23.5 percent less likely to be shot by police, relative to whites. That's according to ex-Harvard scholar Roland Fryer (a black dude, I might add). He investigated racial profiling in his study: "An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force," published July 2017.

John exposes Pax Romana and Pax Augusta to be bald-faced lies. He does not allow his hearers to ignore the fact that a great deal of violence has gone into creating and sustaining empire, for example, in the brutal suppression of the Jewish Revolt. How is it truly a matter of "peace" if you use overwhelming force to subdue a country that never wished to be a part of your empire in the first place?