Quotes About Force

Persuasion should come before force. In any case it is the availability of raw power, not the use of it, that makes for effective diplomacy.

Violence! Violence!

For it is a fact that the roots of a tree mirror the spreading crown of its branches. As the branches spread out, so do the roots in proportion. If the tree's branches die back, the roots do too. As above, so below. In this respect the system of the tree as a whole rather resembles, at top and bottom, the magnetic field of a bar magnet, or indeed of the Earth itself. And who knows what force fields, as yet unmeasured by man, may surround the physical manifestation of a tree?

The violent take it by force" is how the King James Version puts it (Matt. 11:12). That is the way the kingdom of God advances. With persecution outside, Satan fighting us through temptations, and our own lusts within, every disciple of Christ is in a battle, one that demands spiritual strength and ongoing vigilance.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it arises under a facets government or communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

situation. He was of no color, John Brown, of no race or age. He was pure passion.… He was an elemental force like wind, rain, and fire."7

For it is not without cause that one needs the police and the army to earn one's living or force and injustice to continue to exist.

A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

'What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?

It is the threat of the use of force [against Iraq] and our line-up there that is going to put force behind the diplomacy. But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us.

A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

Si sa che agli uomini il bene bisogna, le più volte, farlo per forza.

The rains!' everyone sang. The wind struck us with a force that made our line bend and waver.

whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.

The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.

For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

The big brutes, I can not name them differently