The Force Quotes
Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.
The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.
To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect
I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.
Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.
We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.
By your own soul, learn to live. If some men force you, take no heed. If some men hate you, have no care. Sing your song, dream your dreams Hope your hopes, and pray your prayers.
Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force.
We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.
You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves
You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.
Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.
Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems really f***ing dumb to me.
Each person is born with an infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance.
Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism.
Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds
Faith is a spiritual force....It is substance. Faith has the ability to effect natural substance.
If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too.
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.
We expected anyway that the democratic forces which have agreed with us in Zimbabwe would have rallied behind us. But it was a difficult struggle.
The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.
You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.
When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself