"The love of liberty is the love of……" — William Hazlitt
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love."
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493 Quotes by William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt has 493 quotes on this site.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund…
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been…
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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More Cannot Force Quotes
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You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.
— Confucius
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Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way…
— Rajneesh
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You cannot force meditation, you can only create the situation. And if the situation is created rightly, then meditation happens…
— Rajneesh
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
— William Hazlitt
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There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you…
— Albert Camus
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The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
— Sholem Asch
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You cannot force things apart that are bound at the heart.
— Ashly Lorenzana
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All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our…
— Strom Thurmond
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You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day,…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can…
— Henry B. Eyring
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You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role…
— Peter Senge
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The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have…
— Peter DeFazio
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