Force Quotes

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We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself. — Seneca the Younger
Others don't make us angry. There is no force involved. Becoming angry is a conscious choice, a decision, therefore, we can make the choice not… — Lynn G. Robbins
The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did… — John Ruskin
Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone. — John Heywood
Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once… — James Agate
Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi
Force is always beside the point when sublety will serve. — Darius I
There is always room for the man of force. — Benjamin Franklin
The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found… — Ayn Rand
TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth. — Ambrose Bierce
POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation. — Ambrose Bierce
The force of necessity is irresistible. — Aeschylus
The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of… — Cornell Woolrich
I was never a Republican, because those gentlemen, distinguished as they are, have only one real interest, and that is the making of special laws… — Samuel J. Tilden
Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for… — James Madison
The appeal to force is the abandonment of reason. — Irving Copi
You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to. — Billy Beane
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it. — Richard Ford
The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which… — Bernard de Mandeville
There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly… — William Morris Hunt
A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his… — John Steinbeck
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily… — Bertrand Russell
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human… — Stefan Zweig
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own… — Nicholson Baker
No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now… — Harrison Salisbury

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