The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of… — Hans F. Sennholz 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
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
The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though. — David Drake 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 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
Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable. — Emily Saliers 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
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
We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds,… — Igor Ivanov Copy Share Image
The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Terrorism is defined by the FBI as the unlawful use of force against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government,… — Kathryn Shay Copy Share Image
The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
Our investigation found that Mattingly and Cosgrove were justified in their use of force after having been fired upon by Kenneth Walker.… — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image
To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
It would be a huge mistake to abandon democracy promotion. Peaceful political change has been enormously successful in the past years in… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral… — Michael Ignatieff 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
Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This new declaration which emphasizes the necessity of global disarmament is based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations, in… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas 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
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
“Peacekeeping is a soldier-intensive business in which the quality of troops matters as much as the quantity. It is not just soldiering… — Larry Wentz Copy Share Image
“In my view, the West is not a concept to be explored, analyzed, or enlarged through a study of the history and… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“You say: "There are persons who lack education" and you turn to the law. But the law is not, in itself, a… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Any naturally self-aware self-defining entity capable of independent moral judgment is a human.” Eveningstar said, “Entities not yet self-aware, but who, in… — John C. Wright 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
“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
“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
“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
“The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Police officers' disproportionate use of force against people of color is a stain on our nation. — Alex Padilla 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
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
Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be. — Ahmet Necdet Sezner 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
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
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