Force works on servile natures, not the free.

...reasonable natures have free will, and can turn to the good or the bad voluntarily by themselves. They either attach themselves to God's will,…

— Gregory Palamas

Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion…

— Harriet McBryde Johnson

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense…

— Martin Buber

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

— Herbert Hoover

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

— Neil Simon

Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by…

— Vladimir Lenin

Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,…

— Joseph Stalin

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

— Adolf Hitler

I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad…

— Tom Segev

Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come…

— Bayard Taylor

It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced…

— Emily Deschanel

History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their…

— Angela Merkel

If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding…

— Jill Stein

Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on…

— Judith Ellen Foster

The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;…

— Eric Hoffer