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Quotes About Force

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.
~ Greg Egan
Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
~ John Locke
Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.
~ Herbert Marcuse
My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.
~ Laurence Sterne
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
~ Aristophanes
I never feel to force my doctrine upon any person; I rejoice to see prejudice give way to truth, and the traditions of men dispersed by the pure principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.
~ Dalai Lama
The fundamental truth is that the guys with the guns matter more than most.
~ Ilan Berman
The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Accept only the truth and the truth will give you that power to be the real instrument, to carry this channel, that force of love.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.
~ Thomas Jefferson
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
~ William Hazlitt
Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
~ William Hazlitt
The most elegant speeches may sway the hearts and minds of men, but not one ever stopped a bullet.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
reached out and yanked on it. The string
~ Michael Connelly
Bosch knew that department policy held that deadly force was justified if it was used to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to an officer or a citizen. Mendenhall was not required to identify herself or give Ellis the opportunity to drop his weapon.
~ Michael Connelly
He finally decided that children liked dinosaurs because these giant creatures personified the uncontrollable force of looming authority. They were symbolic parents.
~ Michael Crichton
field is two million times greater than the strength
~ Michael Crichton
The strongest competitive force or forces determine the profitability of an industry and become the most important to strategy formulation. The most salient force, however, is not always obvious. P. 26
~ Michael E. Porter
It's something of a sacrilege nowadays to speak of insanity as anything but the chemical brain disease that on one level it is. But there were moments with my daughter when I had the distressed sense of being in the presence of a rare force of nature, such as a great blizzard or flood: destructive, but in its way astounding too. (4)
~ Michael Greenberg
Many Antifederalists additionally favored prohibiting Congress from disarming the people, warning that once the national government monopolized military force, it would rule supreme and the states would be destroyed
~ Michael J. Klarman
And who would deny that the consumer demand for ever more stuff at ever cheaper prices is one of the great deterministic forces in history?
~ Michael Lewis
A new force in pro football, Taylor demanded not just a tactical response but an explanation. Many people pointed to his unusual combination of size and speed. As one of the Redskins' linemen put it, "No human being should be six four, two forty-five, and run a four-five forty.
~ Michael Lewis