Force Quotes

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A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his… — John Steinbeck
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily… — Bertrand Russell
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human… — Stefan Zweig
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own… — Nicholson Baker
No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now… — Harrison Salisbury
Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that… — Randolph Bourne
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while… — Elihu Root
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's… — Elihu Root
Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to… — Emmeline Pankhurst
Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti
I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing… — Eugenio Montale
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence… — Will Self
Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force. — Henry Watson Fowler
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… — Algernon Sidney
I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know… — Mark Vonnegut
Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when… — Kenneth Lee Pike
Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is… — Nicholson Baker
The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their… — Dianne Feinstein
But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and… — Henry L. Stimson
It is, indeed, part of the liberal attitude to assume that, especially in the economic field, the self-regulating forces of the market will somehow bring… — Friedrich August von Hayek

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