“These never cease their continual exchange, now through Love all coming together into one, now again each carried apart by the hatred of Strife.”— Empedocles
“Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.”— José Ortega y Gasset
“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 D. Friedman
“For my own part, I must say that I have no patience with the hypothesis of abstract forces.”— William Robert Grove
“Nobody has the moral right to seek his own advantage by force. This is the one enduring principle that separates the ethics of the civilized man from the ethics of the savage.”— Auberon Herbert
“The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.”— Ian McDiarmid
“The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.”— David Boaz
“Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.”— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“War is an act of force, and there is no logical limit to the application of that force.”— Carl von Clausewitz
“Civilization is the process of reducing the element of force in human affairs.”— Robin George Collingwood