Dueling Quote by Philip Sidney

A show of force is hiding weakness. Real strength is gentle.

— Anonymous

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

— Pierre Corneille

Right reason is stronger than force.

— James A. Garfield

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

— Horace

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

— Ayn Rand

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it…

— Paul Hoffman

Force is the weapon of the weak.

— Ammon Hennacy

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

— Ron Rash

“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.”

— Paul Hoffman