The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. George Orwell
Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite ... to the attainment of the ends of such power. Alexander Hamilton
Do more things by wisdom than by force. Hungarian Proverb
Community is not made by force. Afghan Proverb
One should do more by wisdom than by force. Hungarian Proverb