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Quotes about force
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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. (Marti Jose)
Force is not a remedy. (Marti Jose)
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. (Marti Jose)
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not. (Marti Jose)
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The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. (Marti Jose)
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. (Marti Jose)
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer. (Marti Jose)
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. (Marti Jose)
Force works on servile natures, not the free. (Marti Jose)
Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives. (Marti Jose)
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. (Marti Jose)
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. (Marti Jose)
Force without forecast is to little avail. (Marti Jose)
Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will. (Marti Jose)
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. (Marti Jose)
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. (Marti Jose)
A man convinced against his will; is of the same opinion still. (Marti Jose)
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. (Marti Jose)
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. (Marti Jose)
Nancy has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that's similar to most of the male directors I've worked with. (Marti Jose)
The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest. (Marti Jose)
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