Force Quotes - page 3

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society's values, can force it to change. (Samuel R. Delany)
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. View quote
Elihu Root
The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is a great force leading to change. View quote
Kenneth Kaunda
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms. View quote
Horace Mann
The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. View quote
John Adams
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty - it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. View quote
George Eliot
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. View quote
Ayn Rand
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. View quote
William Ellery Channing
If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force. View quote
Marissa Mayer
We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other. View quote
George C. Marshall
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. (Cicero)
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does no remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. View quote
Edmund Burke
Ideas are, in truth, force. View quote
Henry James
Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite ... to the attainment of the ends of such power. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever. View quote
Dylan Thomas
This is the true joy in life being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied. View quote
Edward Said
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies. View quote
Joseph Addison
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd The next, in majesty in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go To make a third, she join'd the former two. View quote
John Dryden
Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number. The other rule is, never fight against heavy odds, if by any possible maneuvering you can hurl your own force on only a part, and that the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail, and repeated victory will make it invincible. (Stonewall Jackson)
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. View quote
George Washington
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes. View quote
Arianna Huffington
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