Quotes About Force

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide fairly distributed economic security, and improve individual moral behavior. If the government is granted a monopoly on the use of force to achieve these goals, history shows that power is always abused. Every single time.

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through the force of arms

Islam is in a formative period struggling to consolidate the vast reach won by both inspiration and force at its founding. Two centuries along, the faith of Muhammad hangs like an intricate veil: a religion still searching for institutional wholeness, a set of lessons to live by.

The United States, the President said, "must be a force for good." Americans focused on "good." Much of the world focused on "force," on being handled.

Disequilibrium is often instigated by the will to power, a sleepless drive in the human personality to control others, to force them to do what one wants, or not to do what one opposes.

We're trapped in a vicious circle: asking the military to take on more and more nontraditional tasks requires exhausting our all-volunteer military force and necessitates higher military budgets. Higher

As the source and force of life, she was timeless and endless.

If I am loved," Father Damien went on, "it is a merciless and exacting love against which I have no defense. If I am not loved, then I am being pitilessly manipulated by a force I cannot withstand, either, and so it is all the same. I must do what I must do. Go in peace.

The self will not be forced under, nor will the baby's needs gracefully retreat. The world tips away when we look into our children's faces.

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Strong faith is more important than high intelligence. Moral force is the only force that can accomplish great things in the world

The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.

Let's be quick. I should like to catch up to them before they marry and I am forced to make Suzette a widow.

And it is through our love for others that we assist others to elevate themselves. Love, the extension of the self, is the very act of evolution. It is evolution in progress. The evolutionary force, present in all of life, manifests itself in mankind as human love. Among humanity love is the miraculous force that defies the natural law of entropy.

It is hardly remarkable that we sicken and die; what is truly remarkable is that we don't usually sicken very often and we don't die very quickly. We can therefore say the same thing about physical disorders that we said about mental disorders: There is a force, the mechanism of which we do not fully understand, that seems to operate routinely in most people to protect and encourage their physical health even under the most adverse conditions.

That to make something, one must feel something, Jahir said. That there is no creation without a motive force. And that such forces should be positive, or the results become twisted and strange. Which would suggest that love creates the universe, or should.

An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy

Strength can always be used to destroy as well as create

The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.

use as ammunition, as pendulum

force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.

Mission with LeMay

Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.