Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast on nature.

-Bronowski,Jacob
  Universities Quarterly, vol.10, issue 3.

   Theuse of forcealoneisbuttemporary.It maysubduefor a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

-Burke, Edmund
  On Conciliation with  America.

Whatevereachmancanseparatelydo, withouttrespassing upon others, he has a right to dofor himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all whichsociety, with all its combination of skill and force, can do in his favour.

-Burke, Edmund
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

-Burke, Edmund
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  Signs of the Times.

He delights to expose the raw nerves of evil, showing it as a force in the world, a skeletonlike figure working visible mischief in the ordinary everydayaffairs of men and women and children.

-Church, Richard
Of Graham Greene. Recalled on Greene's death in the NewYork Times, 4  Apr1991.

Ulster will not be a consenting party.Ulster, attheproper time, will resort to the supreme arbitrament of force; Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Public letter,7 May.

O thou whom envy ev'n is force t'admire!

-Daniel, Samuel
  'To the Right Honourable, the Lady Mary, Countess of Pembroke'. Daniel was part of the group of writers who met at Wilton, which also included Jonson andDrayton, andhe tutored Pembroke's son.

   If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.

-Doolittle,James Harold
^80  The Brothers Karamazov, bk.2, ch.6.

'It is the unofficial forceöthe Baker Street irregulars.'As he spoke, there came a swift pattering of naked feet upon the stairs, a clatter of high voices, and in rushed a dozen dirtyand ragged little street Arabs.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  The Sign of Four, ch.8.

No princely pomp, no wealthy store, No force to win the victory, No wily wit to salve a sore, No shape to feed each gazing eye; To none of these I yield as thrall. For why my mind doth serve for all.

-Dyer, Sir Edward
  'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

-Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)
   Address to the nation on Israel's invasion of Egypt, 20 Feb.

But the adventure, the conquest of an unknown country, thestruggle against theimpossible, all have a fascination which draws me with an irresistible force.

-Hedin, Sven Anders
  My Life as an Explorer.

Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.

-Hindemith, Paul
  The Craft of Musical Composition.

The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.

-Kandinsky,Wassily
  'On the Question of Form', in Blaue Reiter Almanac.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

-King, Martin LutherJr
Attributed, collected in The Words of Martin Luther King.

   Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.

-La Fontaine,Jean de
  Fables, pt.2, no.11,'Le lion et le rat'.

Force is the same throughout and the whole is in every part of it. Force is a spiritual power, an invisible energy which isimparted by violence from without toall bodies out of their natural balance.

-Leonardo daVinci
Quoted in  Jean-Paul Richter (ed)  The Literary  Works of Leonardo da Vinci (1939).

I have chased the English out of France more easily than my fathereverdid, for my fatherdrovethemout by force of arms, whereas I have driven them out with venison pies and good wine.

-Louis XI
  Said after the signing of the Treaty of Picquigny, Sep.

May the Force be with you.

-Lucas, George
  Line deliveredby AlecGuinness as Obi-Wan Kenobiin Star Wars.