Force Quotes

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No religion can be built on force. — George Sand
A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the… — Mao Zedong
The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus. — David Hume
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on… — Claude Levi-Strauss
When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this… — Eddie Van Halen
The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces. — Leon Panetta
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that… — Flannery O'Connor
We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means… — J. William Fulbright
Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection. — Richard Leakey
It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force. — W. E. B. Du Bois
A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to grant the divorce… — Israel Shenker
On my visits to America, I discovered that the old Marxist dictum, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," was… — Felix Houphouet-Boigny
Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces.… — Aneurin Bevan
You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force, the… — Millicent Fenwick
On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are… — Lurlene McDaniel
I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three… — Jonah Lehrer
If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a… — Peter MacKay
If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy. — Dean Norris
After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films. — Ivor Novello
My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I… — Jeremy Northam
I moved to California when I was twelve and I got a video camera and made little movies because I didn't have any friends yet.… — Dylan O'Brien
It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran. — Ehud Olmert
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes… — Carl Jung

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