Physical Force Quotes
35 quotes by 21 authors
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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
— Oscar Wilde
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No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and…
— Ayn Rand
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A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it,…
— James Madison
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We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes, defend our rights,…
— David Boaz
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The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.
— Henry Clarke Wright
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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force.
— Martin Luther
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So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man…
— Ayn Rand
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It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy…
— Martin Luther
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Either the phone is so seriously thin and flimsy that it is bendable with mere physical force, which I cannot believe given the extensive tests…
— Uri Geller
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The more you think you have to use physical force to control life, the less you control life.
— Cesar Millan
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Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and…
— Ayn Rand
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Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens…
— Bhagat Singh
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We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.
— Ayn Rand
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All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.
— Ayn Rand
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When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive…
— Ayn Rand
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I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But it is a…
— Prentice Mulford
Who Wrote These Physical Force Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 35 Physical Force Quotes as follows: