Force Quotes
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The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.
Jon Lee Anderson
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
Emile Zola
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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.
Leon Trotsky
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In terms of merchandise, you can't force anyone to buy something.
Paul Stanley Kiss
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Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.
Joseph Stalin
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Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
Angela Merici
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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
William Shenstone
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Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.
William Shatner
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
Alan Hirsch
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We've also had our anti-terrorism task force for several years. It has worked with the FBI and the ATF as well as our law enforcement.
Bob Wise
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The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.
George Gilder
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From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
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To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.
Ivan Turgenev
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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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Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.
William Hague
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I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
Michael Faraday
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Yes, we see that there are problems in the world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human heart, has the power to make all things right.
Marianne Williamson
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
Hippocrates
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No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men.
Enver Hoxha
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War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
Baruch Spinoza