Force Quotes
6532 quotes by 3878 authors
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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before…
— George Bernard Shaw
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There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press…
— Mark Twain
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We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts…
— Learned Hand
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
— Ramsey Clark
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Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom.…
— Oscar Arias
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There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting…
— J. G. Holland
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The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions…
— Susanne Katherina Langer
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Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is, as…
— Marcel Proust
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It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.... I believe that…
— Albert Einstein
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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom…
— Simone Weil
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The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and achieve personal happiness...…
— Ron Paul
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The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action…
— Immanuel Kant
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One of our greatest assets is that all men aspire to be equal and free. This fact haunts the rulers of the Kremlin today for…
— Allen Dulles
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