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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Law, without force, is impotent.

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.

Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about.

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?