Force

(58 votes)   Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will.

Saying

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(90 votes)   Force works on servile natures, not the free.

Ben Johnson
1600-?British Clergyman, Poet

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(89 votes)   Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
1767-1835, German Statesman, Philologist

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(70 votes)   Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher

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(70 votes)   Force without forecast is to little avail.

Proverbs

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(70 votes)   Some people draw a comforting distinction between ''force'' and ''violence.'' I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.

Kenneth Kaunda
1924-, Zambian Politician, President

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(68 votes)   The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Otto Von Bismarck
1815-1898, Prussian Statesman, Prime Minister

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(66 votes)   The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

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(64 votes)   A man convinced against his will; is of the same opinion still.

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