Force Quotes
6532 quotes by 3878 authors
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I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I…
— John F. Kerry
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You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.
— John F. Kerry
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What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
— Gamal Abdel Nasser
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I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What…
— Wendell Berry
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The religious environmental movement is potentially key to dealing with the greatest problem humans have ever faced, and it has never been captured with more…
— Bill McKibben
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The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders,…
— Henry Grady Weaver
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by…
— Nadine Gordimer
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Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined…
— Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even…
— John McCain
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I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.
— John Doolittle
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Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they…
— George S. Patton
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Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with…
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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The way you create any outcome in your life is to hold the vision of your deepest desires. At the same time, though, you must…
— David Emerald Womeldorff
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A daily creative project is like a marathon. It's a ridiculously daunting task, but making an original creation every day gives you an incredible sense…
— Noah Scalin
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The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of…
— Norman Cousins
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The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be…
— George Bernard Shaw
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This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing…
— Henry David Thoreau
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If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in…
— George Meyer
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