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 Friedman
When love is gone, there's always justice./ And when justice is gone, there's always force./ And when force is gone, there's always Mom./ Hi, Mom!
—Laurie Anderson
Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos. The highest test of a people's fitness for free institutions is their willingness to obey law. In monarchies and empires physical force restrains the multitude and maintains government. In a democracy all depends on the intelligence and conscience of the people.
—John Ireland (bishop)
A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
—J. M. Barrie
The acquisition of the spirit of nonresistance is a matter of long training in self-denial and appreciation of the hidden forces within ourselves.… It puts different values upon things and upsets previous calculations.… It is the greatest force because it is the highest expression of the soul.
—Mahatma Gandhi
Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.
—Rachel Carson
Really, when I look back on it, I did exactly what I had set out to do. I changed my life. I woke myself up. I rediscovered passions of every variety. I forced myself to take a little time. I found a way to bring some of who I used to be into who I was.
—Katherine Center in Everyone is Beautiful