Force Quotes

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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however… — George Bernard Shaw
The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a… — Charles Lindbergh
It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces… — E F Schumacher
The overall effect of the rise of the industrial system is greatly to reduce the union as a social force. But it will not disappear… — John Kenneth Galbraith
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber,… — S I Hayakawa
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in… — William Hazlitt
There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best… — John Dryden
If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then itâ€™s really finished as a force for grappling with the… — J. M. Ledgard
Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart. — Brenda Shaughnessy
Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the… — Bill Vaughan
The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our… — Saul Bellow
When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be a… — Emma Goldman
The unity is brought about by force . — Karl Marx
Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which… — Joseph Conrad
Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often… — Ronald Reagan
In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid triumphs which had… — John Quincy Adams
E?Â loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or… — Blaise Pascal
The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn… — George Steiner
Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other,… — Rita Mae Brown
There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point… — Felix Frankfurter

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