Force Quotes
6532 Force quotes by 3688 unique authors
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Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.
— Emma Goldman
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As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to…
— Luc Sante
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Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how to…
— Eugene Gendlin
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Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To me physical beauty is not the issue, vibrational beauty is and the most beautiful people I meet are those who are radiating the love…
— Jasmuheen
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There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of monumental shift, from…
— Marianne Williamson
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If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in…
— John F. Kennedy
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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
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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
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He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
— Michel de Montaigne
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.
— Erich Fromm
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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
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