Quotes About Force

La sorpresa, la rapidez y la intensidad del ataque están supeditadas al estado de preparación del enemigo en un momento dado. Todo movimiento emprendido por un bando puede ser anulado por un movimiento contrario del adversario. En una operación de esta clase, fuerza y tiempo vienen a ser magnitudes de valor equivalente y que pueden en gran medida expresarse en las mismas unidades: una semana perdida viene a equivaler a una división

The use of force for the waging of war is not to be regulated simply by firm character and text-book maxims.

a special police force was formed entirely of ex-officers and from the wartime armies. These special police, who ultimately amounted to 7,000 men, were nicknamed on account of their dark cap and khaki uniform the 'Black and Tans.

I have heard of wars for the defence of the Protestant religion: our enemies in this instance are equally enemies of all religion—of Lutheranism, of Calvinism; and desirous to propagate everywhere, by the force of their arms, that system of infidelity which they avow in their principles. I

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What else is genius than that productive power through which deeds arise, worthy of standing in the presence of God and Nature, and which, for this reason, bear results and are lasting? All the creations of Mozart are of this class; within them there is a generative force which is transplanted from generation to generation, and is not likely soon to be exhausted or devoured. CHIPS

So violence is not to be expected of those who exercise reason; such conduct belongs to those who have strength without judgement.

The truth of life is that Brahman is no different from atman, the spiritual force within us, what you might call the soul.

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

Egypt is our world today—different vocabulary, same issues. Egypt was organized on the basis of force, ambition, and pleasure, just like our culture today. Egypt persecuted the people of God and was overthrown by divine judgment, just as today's world is destined to be.

if there's one mystical energy that powers the galaxy, it's not the Force. It's pure, unadulterated irony.

By force of arms. (Vi Et Armis)

Force overcome by force. (Vi Victa Vis)

How dare you?' Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. 'How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?' 'I have not yet made any accusations,' Willo said. 'Perhaps it is our own guilt clamoring in your ears.

Any idiot knows that the first thing you do when seizing absolute power is bribe the Praetorian Guard. It's really the only tenured and tacitly understood method of making the cogs of accession mesh smoothly. First you hand out big fat bonuses to the military, then seize your power by force, then build your consensus via relentless intimidation and bondage attire. Authoritarian

application of force. How much else have I not registered? Her prosody

Aquella tarde, Rita, que no era madre ni nunca lo sería, obligó a otra mujer a serlo, forzando el dogma aprendido hasta llegar al cuerpo de otro.

Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously, caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the "whoso-ever will, let him come" doctrine, and is in danger of becoming little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity.

White spume flew its ghost against the glass.

For relatively small stars, the Pauli exclusion principle keeps the electrons in a star sufficiently separated to prevent the star from contracting further after it has spent its fuel. In other words, the electrons counteract the crushing gravitational force. However, for stars more than about 1.5 times the mass of the sun (a mass known as the Chandrasekhar limit), this repulsive force would not be enough to stop stellar collapse.

the forces of nature are unconscious and involuntary; no decisions are made, so to comprehend humanity as a geological force we need to consider its distinctive quality, its volitional element. Humankind is perhaps better described not as a geological force but as a geological power, because we have to consider its ability to make decisions as well as its ability to transform matter. Unlike forces of nature, it is a power that can be withheld as well as exercised.

The driving force of any ideology stands revealed: it can't be coherent without being intolerant.

the application of effort should always be exactly measured: nothing by force, everything by logical progression.

IT WAS LIKE RIDING INTO THE BLAST OF A HAIR-DRYER SET ON HOT.