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Quotes About Force

Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.
~ Jodi Picoult
We wanted a labour force, but human beings came.
~ Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim
Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales.
~ Rose George
We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.
~ Jim DeMint
Hope is that imaginary force that can lead us from the present into the future.
~ Unknown
I'm reminding myself: Force myself to wander; work at play; be serious about being silly.
~ Unknown
I cant force myself to like you...Im sorry.
~ Unknown
Forced," of course, is a euphemism with the exact opposite meaning, like "pacification," which usually involved a great degree of homicidal force on rambunctious natives.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day , on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Woman is as elemental as the sea, and at times equally terrible in her power.' he murmured. 'Man resorts to brute force in order to subdue her subtle cruelty, for he is constantly aware of the forces which can overcome his strength and drown his will to a mere incoherent murmur in the silken hollow of a fragile white shoulder. Be wise in your power, pequena. It can bring you happiness or despair.
~ Violet Winspear
Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.
~ Virgil
Fury provides arms.
~ Virgil
Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?
~ Virgil
Prison, illness, abuse, drugs, abandonment, deportation: all traumas have their literature. But this crucial and fundamental trauma -- the very definition of femininity, "the body that can be taken by force and must remain defenseless" -- was not part of literature. Not a single woman who has been through the process of rape has taken to words to craft a novel out of her experience. No guide, no companionship. Rape wasn't allowed into the symbolic realm.
~ Virginie Despentes
Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
The will of angry gods, an unknown force, are dragging me along, despite myself.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
I had just vividly demonstrated to myself what a tremendous force faith is, and how easy it is to awaken. You just need to know a little bit more than the ones who are supposed to believe. Then it's easy to work miracles.
~ Unknown
One man with a gun can control a hundred without one.
~ Unknown
A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing that is possible. Revolution is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets, and cannons, i.e. extremely authoritarian means
~ Vladimir Lenin
Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is an act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon, all of which are highly authoritarian means.
~ Vladimir Lenin
O Estado é "uma força especial de repressão". Esta notável e profunda definição de Engels é de uma absoluta clareza. Dela resulta que essa força especial de repressão do proletariado pela burguesia, de milhões de trabalhadores por um punhado de ricos, deve ser substituída por uma "força especial de repressão" da burguesia pelo proletariado (a ditadura do proletariado)
~ Vladimir Lenin
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.
~ Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Any kick makes you quick.
~ Unknown
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force
~ Voltaire