Art Quote by Crane Brinton

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

— Samuel Johnson

Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Thus there is an analogy between the juridical relation of human actions and the mechanical relation of moving forces. I never can do anything…

— Immanuel Kant

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force

— Blaise Pascal

There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active,…

— Nikola Tesla

“But the law is made, generally, by one man, or by one class of men. And as law cannot exist without the sanction and…

— Frédéric Bastiat

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

— Blaise Pascal

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

— Mark Twain

Concepts become forces when they resist one another

— Johann Friedrich Herbart

We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]

— Tacitus

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.

— Leon Trotsky