Force Quotes
6532 quotes by 3688 authors
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The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily…
— Alfred Thayer Mahan
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The forces by which the workers are kept in subjugation must be retaliated by force.
— Unknown Author
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Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead…
— Rudolf Rocker
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Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead…
— Rudolf Rocker
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Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give…
— Rudolf Rocker
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The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.
— Louis-Philippe I of France
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There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
— Paul Wellstone
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Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.
— Garth Nix
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Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the…
— Roger Cohen
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I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing…
— Henry Hudson
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Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force?
— Kent Hovind
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The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand…
— Herbert Spencer
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Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force…
— Marilyn Manson
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It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free but they are…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or…
— Marilyn Frye
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We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but must be placed…
— Ernst Haeckel
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I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and…
— George Jung
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Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. (...) It is our appreciation for dance that…
— Rudolf von Laban
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Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts—mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that’s generally suppressed…
— Peter Thiel
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