Quotes about Force

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

Internal imperatives are all the more powerful and therefore all the more of an inducement to revolt.

Some ideas have the force of a bomb exploding.

When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.

The power of God can be detected neither in the world of nature nor in the souls of men. It must not be confounded with any high, exalted, force, known or knowable.

It was not that they hoped to escape another judgment which might be coming upon them; but they desired solidarity. Today we hear a great deal about the "solidarity of humanity"; and the endeavor to secure it by putting God out of His own world is a very old piece of history. Apart from Him, the only really cohesive force for humanity is absent, and confusion must be the result.

Sideways force can be broken though by straight force. Straight force can be stopped by sideways force.

Both jaws, like enormous shears, bit the craft completely in twain.

Bluntly put, a chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving in the host of the God of War—Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force. 25