Use Of Force Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Peace, Powerful, Use

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• 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

  Party, Technique, Use

  "War And Violence On The Decline In Modern Times". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal ConanN, www.npr.org. December 7, 2011.

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• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Acting, Purpose

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.108, Penguin

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• 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

  Iraq, Use, Today

  "Rumsfeld: No World War III in Iraq". edition.cnn.com. November 15, 2002.

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• 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.

  Arlen Specter

  War, Important, Use

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Sol Wachtler

  Citizens, Use, Force

  Sol Wachtler (1997). “After the Madness: A Judge's Own Prison Memoir”, Random House Incorporated

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

  Emily Saliers

  Brutality, Use, Unjust

  "Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls | Outspoken. Unapologetic. A Voice for Women". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

  Evil, Use, Done

  "Author of Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution exits the world stage" by Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2003.

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• People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

  Steven Pinker

  Acceptance, Long, People

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• Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Mother, Children, Father

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms: loans granted on onerous terms; investments that place a given country in the power of the investors; almost total technological subordination of the dependent country to the developed country; control of a country's foreign trade by the big international monopolies; and in extreme cases, the use of force as an economic weapon in support of the other forms of exploitation.

  Che Guevara

  Country, Support, Use

  "On Development". Speech delivered at the plenary session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, www.marxists.org. March 25, 1964.

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• 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

  Different, Heritage, Use

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• 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

  Thinking, Order, Unity

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

  David D. Aitken

  Government, Use, Libertarian

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• Nothing is more violent and radical than what's being done to non-human animals in our society. If a researcher won't stop abusing animals and is stopped physically, whether with the use of force, or is killed, I certainly wouldn't lose sleep over that idea.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Sleep, Animal, Ideas

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

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Bullying, Abuse

  Twitter post from Apr 10, 2014

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• The current generation of world leaders -- our generation -- is also being called to face significant challenges concerning peace, collective security and the environment. We have been unable to solve old disputes and to prevent new threats. The use of force is incapable of eliminating the underlying causes of conflict.

  Dilma Rousseff

  Our Generation, Leader, Challenges

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• There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape .... have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow from authority .... As a choice of blessings, liberty is the greater; as a choice of evils, liberty is the smaller. Then liberty always says the Anarchist. No use of force except against the invader.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Blessing, Evil, Perfection

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• 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

  War, Evil, Use

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• I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is an effective means to stop people who abuse animals," "No strictly peaceful movement has succeeded in liberation," "I think the animal rights movement has been restrained in its use of force, mostly because people in the struggle are often people of privilege who aren't willing to risk losing that privilege.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Struggle, Mean, Animal

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• A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality or freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom. On the other hand, a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by-product, end up with both greater freedom and greater equality. Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today's less well off to become tomorrow's rich, and in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a richer and fuller life.

  Milton Friedman

  Mean, Opportunity, Hands

  Free to Choose ch. 5 (1980).

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• 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

  Use, Anarchy, Path

  Daily Press Briefing Of Office Of Spokesman For Secretary-General, www.un.org. May 18, 1999.

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• To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism. Unequal exchange is an ancient practice. What was remarkable about capitalism as a historical system was the way in which this unequal exchange could be hidden; indeed, hidden so well that it is only after five hundred years of the operation of this mechanism that even the avowed opponents of the system have begun to unveil it systematically.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Party, Order, Years

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• 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

  Impact, Population, Defense

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• 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

  War, Mean, Despair

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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