Moral Force Quotes

The newspaper is a moral force second only to the church. It is a political power superior to parties. It is an instrument of justice coequal with the court.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches at the faculty club. In Russia it suggests the moral force of an art practiced against the greatest personal odds, as a discipline, solitary and intense.

Violence is the weapon of the weak.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.

From the beginning when I founded Operation Rescue, the vision was not solely to end child-killing; the vision was to recapture the power bases of America, for child- killing to be the first domino, if you will, to fall in a series of dominoes. My feeling was, and still is, once we mobilize the momentum, the manpower, the money, and all that goes with that to make child-killing illegal, we will have sufficient moral authority and moral force and momentum to get the homosexual movement back in the closet, to get the condom pushers in our schools to be back on the fringes of society.

Cuba does not have nuclear rockets but it does have moral rockets.

Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.

Democracy is something more, vastly more, than a mere form of government by which society is restrained into free and orderly life. It is a moral entity, a spiritual force, as well. And these are things which live only and alone in the atmosphere of liberty.

Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.

If [George] Washington and his compatriots had relied upon moral power only, the paw of the huge lion of Britannia would be now quietly resting on the necks of the American people.

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.