Forcibly Quotes
66 quotes by 61 authors
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
— Robert Burton
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The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.
— Thomas Sowell
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It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can be…
— John Herschel
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Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Be a witness of sex too. Don't be the controller of it. Don't try to forcibly bring it under control, remain a witness of it…
— Rajneesh
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Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and…
— Plato
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The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the…
— Jonathan Haidt
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You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.
— Jonathan Haidt
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In fact, Christianity has been one of the great salivations on planet Earth. It's what's necessary in the Middle East. Others have written about it,…
— Michael Savage
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I think these people [Al-Qaida, terrorists] need to be forcibly converted to Christianity ... It's the only thing that can probably turn them into human…
— Michael Savage
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Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.
— Pervez Musharraf
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All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for…
— Charles Brockden Brown
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The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and…
— William Shenstone
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The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African Republic and elsewhere.…
— Antonio Guterres
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From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.
— James McHenry
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Surely it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.
— Richard Glover
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A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which…
— Richard Reti
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The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all our hearts, free…
— Ted Cruz
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