Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
— Albert Einstein, from a speech to the New History Society (14 December 1930)
Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
— Friedrich Schiller
Damn braces; bless relaxes.
— William Blake
The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion.
— The Báb, Persian Bayan II.16