The use of force is always an answer to problems. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. — David Drake Copy Share Image
The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Evil must be confronted in its womb, and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Police officers' disproportionate use of force against people of color is a stain on our nation. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted… — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image
Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be. — Ahmet Necdet Sezner Copy Share Image
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
No senator's vote, except for the declaration of war or the authorization for the use of force, is more important than the… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death. I further advocate the killing of anyone… — Hal Turner Copy Share Image
Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“It is not enough for a Christian to condemn evil, cowardice, lies, and use of force, hatred, and oppression. He must at… — Jerzy Popiełuszko Copy Share Image
A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
When you look at the Justice Department's report talking about the Ferguson Police Department's rampant pattern of discrimination and its excessive use… — Benjamin Crump Copy Share Image
The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Wars of necessity are essentially unavoidable. They involve the most important national interests, a lack of promising alternatives to the use of… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
My immediate priorities are peace and stability. I want to differentiate between stability and security: Stability comes from the hearts of people… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
“Phaethon asked: “Do you think there is something wrong with the Sophotechs? We are Manorials, father! We let Rhadamanthus control our finances… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest. This… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Kaffman (2009) described childhood victimization as a "silent epidemic", and Finkelhor, Turner, Ormrod, and Hamby (2010) reported that children are the most… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
“I suggest that those who live in the past don't want a confrontation with the present. I believe that white Americans welcome… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Now keep looking at this unpleasant situation or person until you realize that it isn’t they that are causing the negative emotions.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“[W]hile the use of non-lethal weapons such as tasers and LEDIs may not necessarily reduce the number of civilian casualties, they have… — John W. Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable. — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Nothing is more violent and radical than what's being done to non-human animals in our society. If a researcher won't stop abusing… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image