Force Quotes
6532 Force quotes by 3688 unique authors
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The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been…
— John Boyd Orr
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There is no evil and there are no evil forces in the world. There are only people of awareness, and there are people who are…
— Rajneesh
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[The stimulus bill funds] a bureaucratic structure for the government to begin rationing the health care of the American people. They can then lead a…
— Unknown Author
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The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon…
— Ludwik Fleck
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Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds
— Rajneesh
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We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
— Laurence Sterne
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Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.
— Helio Gracie
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You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack…
— Bruce Lee
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Why is it so? If live is a gift, all that belongs to and is intrinsic to life is going to be a gift. You…
— Rajneesh
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When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I…
— Unknown Author
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Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had…
— Unknown Author
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Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in…
— Mary Blakely
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Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer power…
— Unknown Author
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A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and…
— Unknown Author
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We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.
— Unknown Author
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Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.
— Robert McNamara
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To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion, if you believe…
— Robert Nozick
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It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique, and we find ourselves doubting the validity…
— Unknown Author
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In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a…
— John F. Kennedy
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Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.
— Egon Friedell
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