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“People can tell you to shut up, but they can't keep you from having an opinion.” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

“Persuasion is better than Force.” Aesop, “Aesop's Fables”

“Force, and Fraud, are in warre the two Cardinall vertues.” Thomas Hobbes, “Leviathan” - 1651

“It is precisely because the force of circumstances tends continually to destroy equality that the force of legislation should always tend to its maintenance.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762

“Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.” Karl Marx, “Das Kapital” - 1867

“The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” Thomas Jefferson, “A Summary View of the Rights of British America” - 1774

“It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies; yet our present numbers are sufficient to repel the force of all the world.” Thomas Paine, “Common Sense” - 1776

“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.” Mao Zedong, “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung” - 1964

“Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 1” - 1597

“Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.” Confucius, “Analects”

“They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

“If his forces are united, separate them.” Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” - 5th century BC

“While there are two ways of contending, one by discussion, the other by force, the former belonging properly to man, the latter to beasts, recourse must be had to the latter if there be no opportunity for employing the former.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, “On Duties” - 44 BC

“Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others the most improper to defend us.” Thomas Paine, “Common Sense” - 1776

“Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They...” Margaret Thatcher, “The Path to Power” - 1995

“It also meant that whenever a body is not acted on by any force, it will keep on moving in a straight line at the same speed.” Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Time” - 1988

“Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.” Voltaire, “Candide” - 1759

“The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It’s the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect—but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.” Isaac Asimov, “Foundation” - 1951

“Hence it is that all armed prophets have conquered, and the unarmed ones have been destroyed.” Niccolò Machiavelli, “The Prince” - 1532

“For, although one may be very strong in armed forces, yet in entering a province one has always need of the goodwill of the natives.” Niccolò Machiavelli, “The Prince” - 1532

“If the peace presently to be made is to endure it must be a peace made secure by the organized major force of mankind.” Woodrow Wilson, “A World League For Peace” - 22 January 1917

“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.” Stephen King, “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” - 2000

“Ender didn’t like fighting. He didn’t like Peter’s kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn’t like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“Oh, that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

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