Force Quotes

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.

The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote.

There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.

When I'm walking around, I'm sometimes just perplexed at people who seem like everyday people, people who are on juries, who are in the police force, who are in control of my life in many ways.

Satan is a tool of God's love in the sense that he forces us to see God's loving patience.

I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of literature as well.

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

In terms of merchandise, you can't force anyone to buy something.

For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement.

It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success

Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.

... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.

Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow.

Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.

Women have a connection to life force and nurturing. They have a connection that men don't have. It doesn't mean one's better or more important, it's just a difference.

Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.

True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale.

The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.

What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and in the country.

Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.

Where we really effect change, in terms of creating a passionate work force, is by listening to kids early.

Women are the life force we look at for their beauty.

Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.

it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.

We ought to be looking at business as a force for good.

I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.

I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.

To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.

During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don't want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.

God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.

All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer

The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.

"Okay," I said,hoping I sounded confident, like taking the life force out of ghouls was one of my favorite hobbies, right up there with knitting and sudoku.

The Democratic Party likes to remind people that the Russian force around that was very strong, remarkably strong.

If someone takes responsibility without force, that is love.

They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

You cannot force meditation, you can only create the situation. And if the situation is created rightly, then meditation happens automatically.

Try to force celibacy upon yourself and your dreams will become sexual, they will have a quality of sexuality.