Quotes About Force

Secondly, it is demonstrated that a corporeal object cannot be terminated by an incorporeal object, but either by a Void or by a Plenum, and in either case, beyond the world is Space which is ultimately no other than Matter; this is indeed that same passive force whereby active force, neither grudging nor otiose, is roused to activity. And the vanity is shewn of Aristotle's argument concerning the incompatibility of dimensions.

I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

It's as if attentive people create a magnetic force field for stor- ies the tellers themselves didn't know they had within them.

The fact that they are possible or exist is exactly the force behind them itself and they are the manifestation or extension of the force, not the product of the force.

We need those who can violently shake the world in a gentle way, not those who gently shake it in a violent way.

In a relatively short time, perhaps a decade, the PLA Navy has made a transition from operating only around China's coast to a force that can conduct blue-water operations. China's navy is still no peer of the U.S. Navy, and it is probably inferior to Japan's. However, no other nation in Southeast Asia is able to challenge the PLA Navy currently.

if there is one lesson the Army has learned (or re-learned) in the past twelve years of war, it is this: the application of military force in its current form has limited utility when fighting modern wars among the people. "Combat power" in the form of superior weapons systems, cutting-edge technology, and disproportionate force ratios may enable tactical success on the ground, but does not guarantee strategic victory.

So the Communist Party has shown the world that only force will be able to move it. The people are supposed to be intimidated by this colossal display of obstinacy, and, at least for the moment, many are. But they just wait in silence and let their resentments fester. The Party knows how to suppress, but it no longer has the power to lead. It has forgotten what once made it great.

It may be surprising to hear that parenting should be relatively easy. Getting our child to take our cues, follow directions, or respect our values should not require strain and struggle or coercion, nor even the extra leverage of rewards. If pressure tactics are required, something is amiss. Kirsten's mother and father had come to rely on force because, unawares, they had lost the power to parent.

In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had to hold themselves together from the bottom up, ultimately.

You can no more make water run up hill than can you cause the tide of economic evolution to flow back in its channel along the way it came.

When I think of the play of force and matter, and all the tremendous struggle of it, I feel as if I could write an epic on the grass.

Esiste una forza più grande della ricchezza, ed è più grande perché non può esserci sottratta, La nostra forza, la forza dei proletari, sta nei nostri muscoli, sta nelle nostre mani che possono deporre le schede nelle urne, sta nelle nostre dita che possono premere un grilletto. Non possono strapparci questa forza. È la forza primitiva, la forza sorella della vita, è la forza più potente della ricchezza, che la ricchezza non può sottrarci.

Often the man felt that he had bucked against the very essence of life—the unconquerable essence that swept the hawk down out of the sky like a feathered thunderbolt, that drove the great gray goose across the zones, that hurled the spawning salmon through two thousand miles of boiling Yukon flood.

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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding.

But to force growth is to kill it.

Without plenty, the wealthy lack compassion for the poor, hoarding without sharing. Without law, the strong bully the weak, stealing by force.

Hard, his hands on my shoulders; my head rocked with the force of his fury as he shook me. Ah, Elua, it was sweet! The violence of it was spark to tinder for me.

Do you seek to force hope upon me?" "I do," I said. He bowed a second time. "I accept it.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

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A minority with machine guns can always protect itself.

Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force: he who knows this is ready to become something higher and stronger than a mere bundle of wavering thoughts and fluctuating sensations; he who does this has become the conscious and intelligent wielder of his mental powers.