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Washington has openly declared its right to unilateral use of force anywhere to uphold its own interests. -- Sergei Lavrov
Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be. -- Ahmet Necdet Sezner
Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force. -- Paul Wolfowitz
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. -- Paul Wolfowitz
We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds. -- Igor Ivanov
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. -- Norman Cousins
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. -- Harri Holkeri
Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented. -- Steven Pinker
In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state are inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression. -- Vladimir Putin
I'm not opposed to the use of force. -- Jill Stein
Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence. -- David D. Aitken
Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force. -- Blaise Pascal
[It] would allow citizens to set their own standards for the permissible use of force. -- Sol Wachtler
The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though. -- David Drake
Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable. -- Emily Saliers
The use of force is always an answer to problems[It] isn't an attractive answer, though. -- David Drake
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force -- Blaise Pascal
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force. -- Bertrand Russell
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used. -- Alfred North Whitehead
In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force. -- George W. Bush
I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations. -- John F. Kerry
The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend. -- Leonard Nimoy
When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power. -- Cody Wilson
The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. -- David Friedman
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. -- David Friedman
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. -- Yitzhak Rabin
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. -- Hans F. Sennholz
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. -- Vaclav Havel
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. -- Hal Turner
People versed in politics need not be told that the devil is in the detail, and tough solutions implying the use of force cannot produce a lasting long-term settlement. -- Sergei Lavrov
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. -- Zhu Rongji
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. -- Kofi Annan
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. -- Donald Rumsfeld
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. -- Scilla Elworthy
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. -- Ayn Rand
Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security. -- Igor Ivanov
Overwhelmingly, Israel's political and military establishment want the rest of the world to act diplomatically or otherwise to stop Iran. But if that doesn't happen, then the impulse toward the use of force will become quite strong. -- Dennis Ross
We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting individually or in concert, will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified. -- Barack Obama
Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare. -- Michael Ignatieff
Defence lawyers use the term "duress" to describe the use of force, coercion or psychological pressure exerted on a client in the commission of a crime. When duress is applied to the emotionally unstable the result can be as violent as it is unpredictable. -- Emily Thorne
If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives. -- Carl Rogers
I like using a 75-percent swing for wedge shots instead of full force. -- Keegan Bradley
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day. -- J. Martin Kohe
The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war. -- Arthur Keith
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement. -- Vladimir Putin
Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other. -- Ben Shapiro
I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name. -- Lydia Lunch
I found the structure of writing a screenplay harder than the structure of writing an essay. But it was definitely challenging to force myself to sit and write. I'm not used to having to force myself to work. -- Judy Greer
I was brought up in the north of Scotland, and where I lived was so lowly populated, it was used as a low-flying area by the Air Force, so lots of exciting aircraft used to fly over my village. -- David Mackay
I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy. -- Robert Kagan
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. -- Yehuda Berg
In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it. -- Abraham Lincoln
You must use force against terrorism. -- Tzipi Livni
When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompson
Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously. -- Amy Leigh Mercree
Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'. -- Evelyn Waugh
Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'. -- Evelyn Waugh
Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use. -- Herodotus
Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force. -- Ayn Rand
Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
How would Trump travel as president? Obviously, he'd use Hair Force One. -- David Letterman
Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity. -- Plato
Better to use force when you should rather than when you must. -- George P. Bush
The longer the battle lasts the more force we'll have to use! -- Georgy Zhukov
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. -- Madeleine Albright
I think there should be national standards on the use of legal force. -- Hillary Clinton
Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to help others. -- Philip Freneau
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We have an authorization to use military force against terrorists. We passed it after 9/11. -- Hillary Clinton
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force? -- Jules Verne
We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for. -- Daniel Quinn
I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness. -- Franz Kafka
They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do. -- Eldridge Cleaver
I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use. -- Duke of Wellington
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change. -- Ramsey Clark
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence. -- Norman Finkelstein
Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use. -- Johannes Kepler
We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary. -- Dick Cheney
I use a pick in my hair without force. You use a lawn mower-you got peat moss. -- Extra P
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. -- Thomas Sowell
[...]make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force. -- Plato
I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states. -- Pierre Trudeau
Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
The more you think you have to use physical force to control life, the less you control life. -- Cesar Millan
It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South. -- William H. Seward
A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it. -- Nelson Mandela
A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force. -- Vladimir Yakunin
I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly. -- Vanessa Lachey
I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly. -- Vanessa Lachey
War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort. -- Wesley Clark
Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent. -- Michael K. Simpson
Meta-Essence is the life-force of Wonderland. That of your enemies is especially potent. Collect what you can. Use it wisely. -- Cheshire Cat
The United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime. -- Mike Pence
Power doesn't create happiness or unhappiness. It depends how you use it. Wisdom is the guiding force that directs happiness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force. -- Teresa Nielsen Hayden
With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force. -- George W. Bush
The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force. -- Hypatia
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. -- Ayn Rand
And after September the 11th, the United States Congress also granted me additional authority to use military force against al Qaeda. . . . -- George W. Bush
The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher. -- Anna Brackett
The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher. -- Anna Brackett
If you don't have a good idea of what to do next after using military force, then don't use it in the first place. -- Ted Lieu
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. -- Oscar Wilde
We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others. -- Ed Buckner
The United States does not view our authority to use military force against Al Qaeda as being restricted solely to 'hot' battlefields like Afghanistan. -- John O. Brennan
Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer. -- H. Beam Piper
Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use it excessively. -- Rand Paul
The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar! -- Anne Frank
If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force.... -- Ehud Barak
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. -- Ayn Rand
The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together. -- Dalai Lama

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