Quotes
Quotes about Force
One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]
When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laurence J. Peter.
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth it's spark.
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. [Fr., Patience et longueur de temps. Font plus que force ni que rage.]
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the runs of Iona.
We, that would be known The father of our people, in our study, And vigilance for their safety, must not change Their ploughshares into swords, and force them from The secure shade of their own vines, to be Scorched with the flames of war.
Peace originates with the flow of things â its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force. If you are separated in the slightest from that divine essence, you are far off the path.
One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.
A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and graviton have no separate existence from matter.
Some force whole regions, in despite O' geography, to change their site; Make former times shake hands with latter, And that which was before come after; But those that write in rhyme still make The one verse for the other's sake; For one for sense, and one for rhyme, I think's sufficient at one time.
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.
