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A man convinced against his will; is of the same opinion still.

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Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.

Ryszard Kapuściński

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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

José Ortega y Gasset

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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.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Simone Weil

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Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

Pierre Corneille

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Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will.

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Force without forecast is to little avail.

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Force works on servile natures, not the free.

Ben Jonson

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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

Leon Trotsky

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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

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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

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Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

Henry Miller

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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

Leon Trotsky

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Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Simone Weil

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Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

Katharine Hepburn

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A man convinced against his will; is of the same opinion still.

Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

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.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will.

Force without forecast is to little avail.

Force works on servile natures, not the free.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

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

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.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.