Use Of Force Quotes

Use Of Force Quote of the day

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.

The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces.

While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people.

Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

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.

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

I'm not opposed to the use of force.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death. I further advocate the killing of anyone who interferes with such rescue.

Abraham Lincoln, in order to maintain the unity of the United Statesresorted to the use of force.so, I think Abraham Lincoln, president, is a model, is an example.

The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.

The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.

Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.

When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

Evil must be confronted in its womb, and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.

I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations.

Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable.

Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence.

No senator's vote, except for the declaration of war or the authorization for the use of force, is more important than the confirmation of a nominee for the Supreme Court for a lifetime appointment.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

[It] would allow citizens to set their own standards for the permissible use of force.

In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force.

The use of force is always an answer to problems. Force isn't an attractive answer, though.