Force Quotes
6532 quotes by 3878 authors
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...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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I want to see us to explore outer space. But I want to do it safely, without the loss of human life, and democratically: where…
— Michio Kaku
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Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has…
— Thomas Carlyle
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If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much…
— Ehud Barak
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This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is not waged with…
— Wilhelm Keitel
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The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.
— Henry Clarke Wright
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Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Having been a cheerleader, I know all too well what these girls give up to join forces and compete.
— Kelly Ripa
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What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in the use of…
— Jacques Ellul
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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other…
— Walter Raleigh
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Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.
— Samora Machel
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Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to…
— Audre Lorde
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All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.
— Derrick Bell
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Personally I do not resort to force- not even the force of law- to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all…
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;…
— Simone Weil
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Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a nobody.…
— Ian Kershaw
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The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence…
— Adolf Hitler
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To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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