Force Quotes

6532 Force quotes by 3688 unique authors

Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as… — Walter Lippmann
Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without… — Michel de Montaigne
He that I am reading seems always to have the most force. — Michel de Montaigne
Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter.… — Eric Hoffer
So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war… — William James
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things… — Joseph Addison
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought… — Mark Twain
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability… — Victor Hugo
Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead. — Erich Fromm
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist. — Mencius
It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed… — Mencius
The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice. — Thomas Carlyle
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and… — Thomas Carlyle
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a… — Meg Greenfield
Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in… — Bertrand Russell
Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the… — Erica Jong
... every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations… — Sigmund Freud
The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from… — Sigmund Freud
Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people. — Anne Tyler
Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself. — Loren Eiseley
Even in its darkness, it has this picturesque element. It's something about the human condition. It's not the water itself-it's humanity's relationship to water, because… — Roni Horn
When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you… — James A. Baldwin
Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who you want to… — Laini Taylor
Life and love inspire me. I think reinventing yourself is vital to your survival as an artist and a human being. I know it’s cliché… — Madonna Ciccone
No matter who you are, how much money you make, or what kind of clothes you are wearing, CrossFit will force you to come face-to-face… — Julie Foucher

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