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Wednesday, 8 October 2008
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"Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life." (Keller, Helen - Knowledge)

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Browse Quotations about Force

A man convinced against his will; is of the same opinion still.
Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
Force is not a remedy.
Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will.
Force without forecast is to little avail.
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
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.


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