Force Quotes
6532 quotes by 3878 authors
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When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which…
— Michael Faraday
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...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and death…
— Peter Singer
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The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round…
— David Douglas
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The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to…
— Rene Dubos
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When man obliterates wilderness, he repudiates the life force, which put him on this planed in a bad way, and in a truly terrifying sense,…
— J. H. Rush
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating…
— Peter Ackroyd
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The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you…
— Brian Tracy
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A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.
— Nelson Mandela
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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts.…
— Confucius
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Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on psychological…
— Adolf Hitler
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Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it…
— Adolf Hitler
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We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die.…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I do not exclude this, but I would like to draw your attention to one absolutely key aspect: In line with international law, only the…
— Vladimir Putin
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Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people…
— Thomas Huxley
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Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous…
— Susan Sontag
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They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would…
— Primo Levi
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No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but…
— John Dewey
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Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted…
— John Dewey
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When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
— Carrie Chapman Catt
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