Bad Quote by Auberon Herbert

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting…

— Barack Obama

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

— Chinua Achebe

We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

We can do anything through the strength given by God. In our times of need and adversity we just have to trust in God…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.

— Milton Friedman

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

We are not called upon to do all the good possible, but only that which we can do.

— Theodore Guerin

We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if…

— John Wycliffe

We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy…

— Rand Paul