Quotes About Forces

I think it is safe to say, as a huge fan of music, that between 1967 and 1972 was the renaissance of rock music. That's when all the forces combined together-the talent that was available and the freedom for the artists. The industry hadn't become so gigantic.

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.

Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.

The Taliban mostly attacks international and Afghan security forces. They rarely carry out attacks in markets.

Without U.S. forces in the country, there is a strong possibility Afghanistan could host a reinvigorated Taliban allied to a reinvigorated al Qaeda.

There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

You can't fool Mother Nature, and you can't fool market forces (at least not for long)

I come to you as a man selling air, And you will think twice at the offer and price, And you will argue that nothing is there, Although we know that it is - everywhere. I bring a formula largely untold, - Of forces mixed with between and betwixt. And only seen when allowed to unfold. And better felt when the body is cold. I have a map to the home of the soul, Beyond the mind is a golden find, - The paradox is a guide to the goal, - Though doubt is sacred, each man is the Whole.

The return of the last American combat forces from Vietnam in 1973 marked the sudden end of the pre-eminence of the Western among the genres of mythic discourse.

They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.

stable competitive forces—take the time and effort to deeply understand these forces, and voilà, you can create a road map for your other decisions that is likely to last for some time. The emphasis in strategy was therefore analytical: because industries were assumed to be relatively

maintaining an organizational system that can maintain the complementarity between the forces for innovation and those for stability.

Your days in power are numbered because the deepest forces of the universe are on the side of the oppressed, the underdog, and the powerless

I never conceived of my biographies as merely telling the lives of famous men but rather as a means of illuminating their times and the great forces that shaped their times—particularly political power, since in a democracy political power has so great a role in shaping the lives of the citizens of that democracy.

You must understand that when you approach the unconscious you are dealing with one the most powerful and autonomous forces in human experience.

Magic encourages you to take charge of your own life, so it confers a sense of agency and self-control that can seem lacking at times like these when sort of epic, elemental forces seem to have us all at their mercy. Given the options, who wouldn't prefer to be rampaging around in higher planes, interacting with eternal archetypes and pop culture gods? Who wouldn't want to bring back ideas that could change the world?

But, even if this explanation be granted, the wonder and the beauty of some of these images continue to haunt the drug experimenter. As Jung himself has said, "It is pointless to deny the gods, when confronted with forces that act just as the gods are supposed to act.

Nietzsche would have said the Dionysian spirit was abroad in Great Britain that year. Freud, who read and enjoyed Nietzsche, would say in his own language that unconscious forces were erupting. Jung, influenced by both Freud and Nietzsche, would say the Dionysian archetype was escaping from the collective unconscious, accompanied by synchronicities (uncanny coincidences).

Morgenthau begins his argument by noting that the world "is the result of forces inherent in human nature." And, human nature, as Thucydides pointed out, is motivated by fear ( phobos ), self-interest ( kerdos ), and honor ( doxa ).

The forces of culture and geography are likely to prevail at some point. A man-made border that does not match a natural frontier zone is particularly vulnerable.

Oman is an example of how globalization at its best is built on vigorous localisms that can survive the onslaught of destructive commercial forces.