Quotes About Force

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.

Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented.

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

I've always been a dominant and violent person.

It's a violent sport. It's meant to be that way.

It's the most violent sport there is.

I'm a violent, physical person.

I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

The very name Jerusalem means City of Peace. Violently evicting families from their homes in which generations have lived is not an act of peace. A show of strong force during prayer is not an act of peace. Destroying holy sites is not an act of peace.

I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!

In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make it a virtue.

I think the 'counterculture' believes that there are ways to manage being the world's most powerful country that involve creation of consensus - ruling by virtuous example rather than by force of arms.

My genetic make-up is one of physicality. I'm a visceral guy.