Quotes About Force

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

Momentum is everything in this league.

Momentum is very important.

Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

My right hand is a monster.

My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.

In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

Anyone who seeks to help others—whether by means of religion or by means of medicine—must eschew the use of force.

What, then, are psychotherapists and what do they sell to or impose on their clients? Insofar as they use force, psychotherapists are judges and jailers, inquisitors and torturers; insofar as they eschew it, they are secular priests and pseudomedical rhetoricians. Their services consist of coercions and constraints imposed on individuals on behalf of other persons or social groups, or they consist of contracts and conversations entered into by individuals on their own behalf.

go forth and thrash!

Screening, the theory of which won enfant terrible Joe Stiglitz a share of the Nobel Prize in 2001, is the art of finding out hidden information by forcing people to act, rather than simply murmur sweet nothings.)

At the heart of any poor soul not at one with the Force, there is only void. —Unknown Je'daii, 2,545 TYA (Tho Yor Arrival)

As he joined them, Lando felt a frown crease his forehead. It had been hard to tell through all the rest of their murmurings. But he could have sworn Winter had just said-- 'Winter?' he asked. 'Yes?' she said, looking at him Lando felt his lip twitch. 'Nothing, he said, and kept walking. Because, really, no one said 'May the Force be with us' anymore. No one but Rebels and religious nuts. And if Winter was one of either group, he really didn't want to know about it.

Jedi Skywalker; remember it well. For if you allow your justice to be forgotten, you will be forced to repeat the same lessons again and again." He held Luke's gaze a pair

Surely you must understand that the means are no less important than the ends. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

Which meant he was alone here. Even more alone than he'd realized. He took a deep breath. He wasn't alone. The Force was with him.

This was the New Jedi Order, and he and Mara were walking together in as perfect a harmony with each other and with the Force as he could ever expect. The Force will be with you always Mara, he murmured in her ear. And so will I.

God had given mankind intellect, one of my teachers had once said, and the Fall had given him prejudice; and there was no human force more dangerous than a combination of the two.

Force as well as the long-range communication abilities that had been her primary value to his regime. Those skills had vanished at the moment of his death, reappearing only briefly and erratically in the years since then.

Law, without force, is impotent.

For the Marines, it validated their claim of "first to fight." They were the first Allied ground force to take the offensive against Axis forces in World War II, a point they still take pride in today.

The U.S. military must be able to project massive, shattering force quickly from many directions—land, sea, air, and space—which means, among other things, that service parochialism is an expensive and dated luxury. The new military mantra is "jointness"—all the services must be able to work together as well and as comfortably as with members of their own organizations.