Force Quotes
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You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes...and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
Victor Hugo
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
Galileo Galilei
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Somebody must have sense enough to meet hate with love. Somebody must have sense enough to meet physical force with soul force. If we will but try this way, we will be able to change these conditions and yet at the same time win the hearts and souls of those who have kept these conditions alive a way as old as the insights of Jesus of Nazareth, as modern as the techniques of Mohandas K. Gandhi. There is another way.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
Leon Trotsky
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We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
Henry Knox
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Our party remains as firm as this rock and will not be divided by any force in Germany.
Adolf Hitler
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If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want to disrupt.
Brian Balogh
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Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Possessing a weapon has made me bashful. Tears appreciate in this economy of pleasure. The ether of data engulfs the capitol. Possessing a weapon has made me forgetful. My oboe tars her cenotaph. The surface is in process. Coruscant skinks emerge in force. The moon spits on a copse of spruce. Plausible opposites stir in the brush. Jupiter spins in its ruts. The wind extends its every courtesy. I have never been here. Understand? You have never seen me.
Ben Lerner
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
George Bernard Shaw
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You are one with the same force that provides the spiral arms of the galaxy. That universal creativity. It's also what you are as well. And when the mystic eye is open and sees that, a person is forever changed !
Alex Grey
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God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.
Barry Webster
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With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
Steve Earle
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Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.
George Eliot
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Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces. In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist.
Ina May Gaskin
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The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters.
Brassaï
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Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.
Euripides
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.
Tertullian
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If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.
Jane Austen