Quotes About Force

FIRST MORAL Good manners are not easy They need a little care, But when we least expect it Bring rewards both rich and rare. SECOND MORAL Brute force or bribes of diamonds Bend others to your will, But gentle words have greater power And gain more conquests still.

What holds our society together is not force or even laws but moral suasion. Presidents rule not by fiat, but by the sufferance of free men. Without the collective goodwill of 200 million Americans, glibly called "public confidence," government is impotent, anarchy—or worse—inescapable.

The force of inertia acts in the domain of psychics as well as physics; any idea pushed into the popular mind with considerable force will keep on going until some opposing force--or the slow resistance of friction--stops it at last.

You must give me your solemn promise that you will not think of me as a sister!" He looked perplexed. "How can I govern thoughts I've held for two decades?" She put hands to hips. "May I suggest you force yourself to think of my breasts!

It was only after her death that I realized who she was: the apparently magical force at the center of our family who'd kept us all invisibly spinning in the powerful orbit around her.

Storms... surging, raging... calling all our cells to attention — roaring, wailing unabashedly smashing...

As a candle cannot burn without fire, so man cannot live without spiritual force.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.

We are an energy vortex

Let us admit that we have attended parties where for one brief night a republic of gratified desires was attained. Shall we not confess that the politics of that night have more reality and force for us than those of, say, the entire U.S. Government? Some of the "parties" we've mentioned lasted for two or three years. Is this something worth imagining, worth fighting for? Let us study invisibility, webworking, psychic nomadism--and who knows what we might attain?

For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

Light produces space, distance, orientation, calm contemplation; it is the gift that makes no demands, the illumination capable of conquering without force.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

He who glides dreamily down the glassy surface of a mighty river floats securely, making his calculations to row upward. He knows nothing what the force of that seemingly glassy current will be when his one feeble oar is set against the whole volume of its waters.

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

It is a nasty world that only respects bullies.

The release of atomic energy constitutes a new force too revolutionary to consider in the framework of old ideas.

"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!

Who forces himself on others, is to himself a load.

Lo mejor para nosotros es / idear un plan perfecto, que mediante engaños o astucias / consiga lo que la fuerza no puede conseguir»).[7]

el arte de la dialéctica de dos voluntades opuestas que utilizan la fuerza para resolver su disputa».[1]