Force Quotes

6532 Force quotes by 3688 unique authors

I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our… — Brenda Ueland
Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the… — Ludwig von Mises
The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to… — Richard Hofstadter
Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. — Emile Durkheim
It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on… — Emile Durkheim
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves. — Henrik Ibsen
Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for a force underneath,… — Franz Marc
My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from… — Marc Chagall
I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation of intellectual wealth,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the… — Nikola Tesla
Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that… — Nikola Tesla
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work… — Clement Greenberg
No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware… — Christopher Dawson
No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were… — Christopher Dawson
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental questions… — Pope Pius XII
Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes.… — Marvin Harris
The major force in world history is sheer dumbness. — Eric Wolf

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