Force Quote by Benjamin Franklin

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

— Benjamin Franklin

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve…

— Ovid

What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe…

— Thomas Paine

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

— Ayn Rand

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political…

— Ed Crane

If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that…

— Frederic Bastiat

Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles,…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

— Adolf Hitler

Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come…

— Bayard Taylor

It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced…

— Emily Deschanel

History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their…

— Angela Merkel