Force Quotes
Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?
It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.
Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom.
There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees
Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.
Since the Lord will not force you to learn, you must exercise your agency to authorize the Spirit to teach you.
Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side.
There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.
There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.
The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.
Creativity is a force moving through us, and only through practice do we learn how to cooperate with it. The 'process' is like a muscle. It needs to be exercised in order to function effortlessly.
Intention is not something you do, but rather a force that exists in the universe as an invisible field of energy, a power that can carry us.
The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.
FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.
My poems please the brave: My poems, short and sincere, Have the force of steel Which forges swords.
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.
I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people.
Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping stones between heaven and earth.
A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.
But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end.
Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.
When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.
Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.
I have never given this ring, my soul, to anyone. Azrael has never had any part of this. This is the only part of myself that is truly mine, and now it is yours.” —Jack Force