Acting Quote by Kirby Page

War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

— Wesley Clark

A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for…

— Noah Webster

People in uniform are not sacrosanct. They don't have all the answers. The use of force is a political decision at its core, in…

— Richard Holbrooke

Force is the weapon of the weak.

— Ammon Hennacy

When you use force, people get hurt, and when you kill people, their relatives don't like it. And usually war has some unanticipated consequences…

— Wesley Clark

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes,…

— Simone Weil

War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and…

— Robert Southey

There are only two forces that can withstand the force of the war's spirit when it seizes upon the world. The one is the…

— Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

— Edmund Burke

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may…

— Vladimir Lenin