Quotes About Force

Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example.

Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore.

The rapid proliferation of cell phones in Afghanistan proves that anything that adds value to people's lives spreads like brushfire - and commerce is certainly a force that could add value for Afghanis.

It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.

I see the value of being a force. I don't want to say a force, but numbers. If you're all spread out, you can't change policy for the better, and I feel we've done that.

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

I'm not someone who could do 'Superweib,' even if you tell me that this director is another Lubitsch. I saw the preview, and I have to say that you'd need a squad of police officers to force me to see the whole thing.

When you're blocking someone, or when you're running, it's all about putting force into the ground, and that's the epitome of the back squat.

I squeeze like an anaconda.

We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people.

The PRI portrays itself as the force of the center, of stability.

What drives the attractiveness of a trans-shipment hub are really three things. Location, location, location is very helpful. But so is productivity - a stable labor force and getting ships in and out as quickly as possible. And then, getting costs as low as possible will drive carrier behavior.

Police officers' disproportionate use of force against people of color is a stain on our nation.

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.

No one can stand up to the extraordinary power of my fists.

I think there's a great homogenizing force that software imposes on people and limits the way they think about what's possible on the computer. Of course, it's also a great liberating force that makes possible, you know, publishing and so forth, and standards, and so on.

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

FAITH is the only agency through which the cosmic force of Infinite Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.