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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. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
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. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
Force works on servile natures, not the free. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
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. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
Force without forecast is to little avail. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
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. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
A man convinced against his will; is of the same opinion still. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
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. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
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. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
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. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
What was taken by force, can only be restored by force. (Nasser Gamal Abdel)
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