Quotes About Force

In short, the briefing talked about things, the elements of airpower—numbers of aircraft and bases—but did not talk about the application of force and how it would be used to frustrate the enemy and accomplish the CINC's military objectives.

Gelos is the only force in the cosmos who stands between the gods and total universal domination, because only laughter and a sense of the absurd makes it possible for human beings to dismiss the gods as a figment of the imagination; whereas if Gelos ever finds a hero brave and strong enough to protect him from the gods, he will be able to rule the whole

people of New Orleans spun a culture out of their lives—a music, a cuisine, a sense of life—that has been recognized around the world as a transforming spiritual force.

since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it became the most dangerous and repressive force that the world has ever known.

Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.

If my belief in the God-force-principle-thing had faltered from time to time, it was completely reaffirmed that morning when I considered how completely brilliant a creation was fermentation. From decay came a pleasure sublime enough to keep decay at bay. Only for a few minutes, perhaps, but some minutes are like no others.

In September 1944 there were 7,487,000 foreigners in Germany, most of them there against their will, and they constituted 21 percent of the country's labour force.

And once we cease to value the public over the private, surely we shall come in time to have difficulty seeing just why we should value law (the public good par excellence) over force.

Some 300 years earlier, in Leviathan, Hobbes had anticipated precisely such a notion16 with his concept of 'force and fraud': the idea that violence and cunning constitute the primary, indeed the sole, instigators of outcomes. And that the only analgesic for 'continual fear, and the danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short' is to be found in the sanctuary of agreement. The formation of alliances with others.

Luke smiled at his friend. "I seem to remember you called the Force a 'hokey religion' when I first met you." Han looked away, embarrassed. "Well, I've gotten smarter since then.

Time is like a river. It flows one direction, But with a little force you can go back. But like a river, Everything you do has a ripple.

Power is based, at bottom, on the ability to kill; thus the means of killing have to be available, even if only to a select few.

artificial order on civilization is with brute force. The only way to make something unnatural appear to be natural is to force everyone to think alike. If

The point of language puts us in the same position as lightning.

Halt! Halt, I say! (Roger) Oh, that's effective. Halt or I shall say halt again. (Sin)

Knowledge does not come through force. It can not be taken, it can only be freely received

Sometimes there's nothing but force that will get the job done, and the more force we bring to the equation, the better our odds of survival will be.

Dictator can only be managed by a force greater than their dictatorship.

When states decide to use force to deal with broader threats to international peace and security, there is no substitute for the unique legitimacy provided by the United Nations.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

Il y a des moments où le recours à la force peut être légitime pour poursuivre la paix.

Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.

I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

Love is a powerful force. It's also much more potent than evil," she emphasized the word 'evil' and gently patted my hand. "Always remember that. You will know what to do. Listen to your heart and decide what you are willing to sacrifice, my dear Pasha.