Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Force always attracts men of low morality.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Force is not a remedy.
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
Right reason is stronger than force.
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
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