Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Force is not a remedy.
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.