Quotes
Quotes about Force
The soul may come into existence because of tyranny. The tyrant takes everything from us so we are forced to believe. We are left with something. This something we call the soul
One always has enemies. Fortunately, enemies are inimical for a diversity of reasons. They are not a united force clashing armour in the same rhythm
Every fiction writer ought, once in his lifetime, to be forced to fulfil in fact what he had fashioned in fancy
I went back to my novel, crumpled the sheet I had started, and forced the characters back into total servitude to my will. Slaves, sort of, with only the illusion of freedom. Like all of us.
We are forced, by the very nature of language, to generalize
I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something, too, of the motives behind the social forces which judge those actions and which, I take it, we call a system of morality
Like a force of nature
Like a force of nature
Son, when you grow up you will know who I really am. I am just a child like you who has been forced to act responsibly.
Son, when you grow up you will know who I really am. I am just a child like you who has been forced to act responsibly.
I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and the fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." - H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
Government is force, legalized plunder.
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.
Farce follow'd Comedy, and reach'd her prime. In ever-laughing Foote's fantastic time; Mad wag! who pardon'd none, nor spared the best, And turn'd some very serious things to jest. Nor church nor state escaped his public sneers, Arms nor the gown, priests, lawyers, volunteers; "Alas, poor Yorick!" now forever mute! Whoever loves a laugh must sigh for Foote. We smile, perforce, when histrionic scenes Ape the swoln dialogue of kings and queens, When "Chrononhotonthelogos must die," And Arthur struts in mimic majesty.
The Sick Lion A lion, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do so by artifice. He returned to his den, and lying down there, pretended to be sick, taking care that his sickness should be publicly known. The beasts expressed their sorrow, and came one by one to his den, where the Lion devoured them. After many of the beasts had thus disappeared, the Fox discovered the trick and presenting himself to the Lion, stood on the outside of the cave, at a respectful distance, and asked him how he was. I am very middling, replied the Lion, but why do you stand without? Pray enter within to talk with me. No, thank you, said the Fox. I notice that there are many prints of feet entering your cave, but I see no trace of any returning. He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others.
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.
The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
