Force Quotes
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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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Unjust force can never give any just dominion.
John Arbuthnot
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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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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.
Rudolf Arnheim
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There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
Alan Hirsch
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
Idries Shah
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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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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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Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
Baruch Spinoza
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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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The application of force alone, without support based on a spiritual concept, can never bring about the destruction of an idea or arrest the propagation of it, unless one is ready and able to ruthlessly to exterminate the last upholders of that idea even to a man, and also wipe out any tradition which it may tend to leave behind.
Adolf Hitler
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The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.
August Strindberg
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The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
Marianne Williamson
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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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At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.
Kari Matchett
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Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.
William Shatner
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One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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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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Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means.
Doris Humphrey
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We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.
Lao Tzu