Force Quotes

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The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though. — David Drake
When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with… — Jeanette Winterson
I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a… — Bertrand Russell
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that… — William James
All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy?… — Saul Bellow
It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times,… — D. H. Lawrence
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history. — Henry James
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the societyâ€™s values, can force it to… — Samuel R. Delany
The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes… — Niels Bohr
No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. — Isaac Babel
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to… — Robert A. Heinlein
a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned… — Jose Saramago
Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet. — Philip Yancey
Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and… — Thomas Hardy
There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey. — Chris Heimerdinger
In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental… — Cornel West
Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to… — Derrick Jensen
The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to… — Carter G. Woodson
Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you… — Euripides

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