Force Quotes
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.
He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.
For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.
All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited war, if required
Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.
The most powerful force in the human psyche is people's need for their words and actions to stay consistent with their IDENTITY - how we define ourselves.
My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.
I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.
God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.
Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.
It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.
Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.
We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.
We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.
When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.
The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements.
In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force
Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.
Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.
Nobody has been held accountable for the Bytyqi murders. Those in command of the camp and the forces operating there have never been charged.
When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.
Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.
Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past time to close this tragic chapter in American history.
What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.
It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.
You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.
It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.
Trump's immigration positions do not deserve a response because they are so outlandish. If you force me to give you three words to describe them they would be: ludicrous, impractical and racist.
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God’s will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.
I do force myself to sleep with myself to get the job. But that's always a disappointment.