Nowhere in the world has the use of force alone resolved a conflict. — Antonio Guterres 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
“The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though. — David Drake 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
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
In Israel's short history, army commanders and the heads of the intelligence agencies have often advocated the use of force and in… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
“Christianity, expecting from its adherents gentleness, meekness, peaceableness, forgiveness of injuries, turning the other cheek when one is struck, and love for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The only government tolerated by libertarians is one that exercises only retaliatory use of force on anyone who initiates the use of… — John Hospers Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a libertarian position on abortion. Maybe if you took a poll of libertarians, it might be that… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets… — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo Copy Share Image
If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
Iran has essentially mastered all of the complex science and technology that they need to have a completely indigenous nuclear weapons program.… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
“Defence lawyers use the term "duress" to describe the use of force, coercion or psychological pressure exerted on a client in the… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms:… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“Over the past five decades, civilian officials have favored the use of military force over the opposition of their military counterparts. In… — Melvin A. Goodman Copy Share Image
With empathy you know in your heart that it's not a sign of weakness to attempt to understand that the people we… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
God's command to have dominion over every living thing is a call to service, a test of responsibility, a rule of love,… — Hugh Nibley 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
Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one… — Pablo Antonio Cuadra Copy Share Image
“For realists, the state is the main actor and sovereignty is its distinguishing trait. The meaning of the sovereign state is inextricably… — John Baylis Copy Share Image
“Proponents of the federal “Trayvon Martin Act” want to prevent Stand Your Ground laws from being used by someone who was the… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“Anyone want to help me start PAPA, Parents for Alternatives to Punishment Association? (There is already a group in England called ‘EPPOCH’… — Kelly Bryson Copy Share Image
“In the use of force, one simplifies the situation by assuming that the evil to be overcome is clear-cut, definite, and irreversible.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Incidentally, the same logic that would force one to accept the idea of the production of security by private business as economically… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“This makes it Lawful for a Man to Kill a Thief, who has not in the least hurt him, nor declared any… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Trocmé was disagreeable in the same magnificent sense as Jay Freireich, and Wyatt Walker, and Fred Shuttlesworth. And the beauty of the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Let's have some precision in language here: terrorism means deadly violence -- for a political and/or economical purpose -- carried out against… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend. — Leonard Nimoy 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
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
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
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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