Nowhere in the world has the use of force alone resolved a conflict. — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Washington has openly declared its right to unilateral use of force anywhere to uphold its own interests. — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
It is a duty for any government to uphold the rule of law, and this sometimes requires the proportionate use of force. — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force. — George W. Bush 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
The use of force is always an answer to problems. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. — David Drake Copy Share Image
[It] would allow citizens to set their own standards for the permissible use of force. — Sol Wachtler 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
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
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
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
Generically, wars in necessity are wars where, I think, the vital interest of the nation are at stake, in which there are… — Richard N. Haass 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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 libertarian approach is a very symmetrical one: the non-aggression principle does not rule out force, but only the initiation of force.… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of… — David Drake Copy Share Image
In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“Observe the nature of today’s alleged peace movements. Professing love and concern for the survival of mankind, they keep screaming that the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Can violence and the use of force to effect change upon the universe be left to the young? Do they see what… — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
“Evil is not one large entity, but a collection of countless, small depravities brought up from the muck by petty men. Many… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“How do we pick and choose where to get involved? Canada and other peacekeeping nations have become accustomed to acting if, and… — Romeo Dallaire 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
“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
“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
“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 only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force. — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image