Force Quotes

6532 Force quotes by 3688 unique authors

Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that… — Randolph Bourne
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while… — Elihu Root
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's… — Elihu Root
Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to… — Emmeline Pankhurst
Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti
I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing… — Eugenio Montale
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence… — Will Self
Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force. — Henry Watson Fowler
Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or… — Algernon Sidney
I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know… — Mark Vonnegut
Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when… — Kenneth Lee Pike
Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is… — Nicholson Baker
The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their… — Dianne Feinstein
But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and… — Henry L. Stimson
It is, indeed, part of the liberal attitude to assume that, especially in the economic field, the self-regulating forces of the market will somehow bring… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people… — Larry Kramer
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such… — Leslie Fiedler
Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a… — Judith Perelman Rossner
America rules the world - by force. — Harry Browne
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have… — Michel Foucault
Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind. — Ralph Waldo Trine
It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow. — Eric Burdon
A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it… — Robert Emmet
Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his… — Ruth Nanda Anshen
What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces. — David Puttnam

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