Quotes About Force

I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.

On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

A speech with magical force. Nowadays, people don't believe in these kinds of things. Except in the Metaverse, that is, where magic is possible. The Metaverse is a fictional structure made out of code. And code is just a form of speech—the form that computers understand. The Metaverse in its entirety could be considered a single vast nam-shub, enacting itself on L. Bob Rife's fiber-optic network.

It is heavy enough to stun a muskellunge.

Princes were taught a thing or two about being rational, as they were taught to play a little lute and dance a passable ricercar. But what drove their actions was their own force of will; in the end they did as they pleased, rational or not.

if Newton is the finger, Leibniz is the stone, and they press against each other with equal and opposite force, a little bit harder every day. RAVENSCAR:

Then, again gradually, Gods were given larger roles. The need for protection, for strength, began to supplant the need for wisdom and love. A new kind of love was born in these mythologies. A love which protects with brute force. But it was a love which also covets what it protects; which was jealous of its Goddesses; which now did not simply serve their feminine lusts, but fought and died for them.

I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear

Gravity is a marvelous force, but a troubling one.

Not only that, this "negative gravity" will ultimately win the tug-of-war, as it forces the cosmic expansion to accelerate exponentially into the future.

opposite direction of gravity, forcing the universe to expand faster than it otherwise would.