Force Quotes

6532 Force quotes by 3688 unique authors

American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those… — James Madison
Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force… — George Washington
I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating force over you,… — Rajneesh
It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives. — Robert McNamara
My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the 'National Day of… — Richard Dawkins
Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities, nor can there… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful… — Charles Darwin
When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude. But enthusiasm is… — James Madison
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism. — Daniel Dennett
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and… — Vladimir Lenin
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to… — Bertrand Russell
Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward. — Robert Andrews Millikan
With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I… — Karl Marx
The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain… — Sigmund Freud
The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force. — Adolf Hitler
What you hold in your hand is proof of man's power - against which our strength means nothing. It has the force of 100 spears.… — Charlton Heston
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love. — Sharon Salzberg
Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know it is to… — Rajneesh
Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself, you have to… — Rajneesh
Use the head, use the heart, and if you can use both a tremendous revolution will happen. If you can use both you will become… — Rajneesh
You cannot force meditation, you can only create the situation. And if the situation is created rightly, then meditation happens automatically. — Rajneesh
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences… — Thomas Jefferson
If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The… — Sun Tzu
It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him;… — Sun Tzu
The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up… — Sun Tzu

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