Force Quotes

A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.

In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal every affliction and ailment we may have.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.

Love is the most powerful force in the world.

Force is always beside the point when sublety will serve.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

If the word 'integration' means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: (1) stop us in our tracks, or (2) force us to get creative.

Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

The way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to completion, you will need a strong character, a broad foundation of knowledge and an enormous force of persuasion.

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the law of attraction.

Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.

Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me; but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force, I should feel that it must be resisted.

We live in a regime built on force and lies. In essence, it's the same here as in Uzbekistan, except the government here is better at presenting itself to the outside world.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.

A mystery is the most stimulating force in unleashing the imagination.

Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.

[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day.

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.

Force is the weapon of the weak.

We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

The longer the battle lasts the more force we'll have to use!

I do have reasons for what I do. I am a very political person, and I really think if you put these clothes on, you will look like a force to be reckoned with.

The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.