Quotes About Force

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

But where men, to the force of appetite and passion, add that of opinion, and are wicked from principle, there will be more men wicked, and those more incurably and outrageously so.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

On every front, the CIA was turning its guerrillas into a far smarter and more lethal fighting force.

There is a unifying force behind all manifestations of nature, which we cannot fully comprehend, but we can try to explain it with the means at our disposal," says Nicholas Vonneumann,

For me there is no greater subject than history. How a man can study it and not be forced to become a philosopher, I cannot tell.

He renders this saying, "The good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and every one enters it violently" (eis aut?n biazetai, Lk. 16:16). Here is the same use of biazetai in the middle voice.

You have no idea how much it contributes to the general politeness and pleasantness of diplomacy when you have a little quiet armed force in the background

We'll have to force a confrontation. How terrible." She rolled her eyes.

I strive to menace," I said.

Anarchy is law and freedom without force. Despotism is law and force without freedom. Barbarism force without freedom and law. Republicanism is force with freedom and law.

What would proceed from a continual promotion of living force, which does not let itself climb above a certain grade, other than a rapid death from delight?

A woman in love is a great spiritual force.

With strong magnetic force the human heart is drawn to consolation; and even grieving becomes consolation in the end.

If I could only pray, he thought, if there was only some reservoir of force out of which I could draw something extra.

E por aí vão, metidos nessa batalha, testando forças e afirmando um ao outro que não discordam fundamentalmente mesmo quando há um abismo entre seus posicionamentos, ou ainda discutindo violentamente em cima de diferenças de ênfase mínimas e pedantes. Em outras palavras, estão agindo com o perfeitos estudantes de merda.

Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict—its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled the problem. Instead, it persisted through a series of conflicts, then vanished of itself—what's the expression—ah, yes, 'not with a bang, but a whimper,' as the economic and social environment changed. And then, new problems, and a new series of wars.

The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

Every vice of the Empire has been repeated in the Foundation. Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.

There is nothing your knife handlers can do in the way of rioting and demonstrating that will have any permanent effect as long as, in the extremity, there is an army equipped with kinetic, chemical, and neurological weapons that is willing to use them against your people. You can get all the downtrodden and even all the respectables on your side, but you must somehow win over the security forces and the Imperial army or at least seriously weaken their loyalty to the rulers.

Habrá otras crisis en el porvenir, cuando el poder del dinero se haya convertido en una fuerza muerta como es ahora la religión.

He's but a windlet that blows the dust about my ankles. There is another that I flee, and he is a storm that sweeps the worlds aside and throws them plunging at each other.