Quotes About Force

If you believe in democracy, you accept, by definition, the existence and triumph of opposing ideas. The people who believe deeply in the Internet's force as a commons operate on that kind of premise.

The British troops are not an occupation force. They are here with the consent of the people.

Our troops shouldn't be mired in taking land for the Afghan military, providing force protection and fighting a permanent insurgency.

There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek.

The Marine Corps has to ask itself, 'What does our nation need from its premier crisis response force?' We are America's shock troops in war and peace. I know it sounds corny, but it's not.

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.

I know I hit like a Mack Truck.

Trump is a product of a seething populism and nationalism that is the driving political force.

I believe we need to focus first and foremost - as Donald Trump has done with such force and such passion - on border integrity and building the wall.

I can hit hard, trust me.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

The things that are more my own style are something that I don't really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want to disrupt.

Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

Some people would rather change and some people don't. Some people don't want to be forced to stay in a certain atmosphere.

A man pushed from behind by many hands will go in but one direction, no matter what he wills.

the natural force, the core of the struggle to exist is the desire to not just survive, but thrive. And to thrive is to feed on victims, ever more victims...

You may believe that civilization deafens us with tens of thousands of voices, but listen well to that clamour, for with each renewed burst so disparate and myriad, an ancient force awakens, drawing each noise ever closer, until the chorus forms but two sides, each battling the other. The bloody lines are drawn, fought in the turning away of faces, in the stoppering of ears, the cold denial, and all discourse, at the last, is revealed as futile and worthless.

It was as if a giant invisible hand had reached down to the Crown, closing to gather in every building, crushing them all while pushing down into the hill.

Every body that darted within his reach he grasped, twisted, bent and broke.