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Quotes About Force

Nature has always had more force than education.
~ Voltaire
God is always on the side of the big battalions.
~ Voltaire
The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
~ W. Clement Stone
Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
~ Unknown
Fear, which is probably the biggest obstacle to any learning process, is a repressive force. It exists in the mind, and almost always it is based on something that might happen in the future, rather than what is happening now. As
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.
~ John W. Campbell
The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
I can say with confidence that we will be able to destroy the major part of an invading force.
~ Unknown
This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficient to crush him at once.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Villette
If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders how is all life to become important to him?
~ Sherwood Anderson
Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side.
~ Unknown
Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
~ T. S. Eliot
One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.
~ Georges Danton
I'll hit you so hard you'll starve to death rolling!
~ Jim Cornette
I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death. I further advocate the killing of anyone who interferes with such rescue.
~ Unknown
A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.
~ Thomas Hobbes
He was struck by how lives diverge and by how powerless each of us is up against the force of circumstance. And where does God figure in this? Why does He set one person down in Nazi-occupied
~ Philip Roth
The detail, the immensity of the detail, the force of the detail, the weight of the detail—the rich endlessness of detail surrounding you in your young life like the six feet of dirt that'll be packed on your grave when you're dead.
~ Philip Roth
Ironically, (the church's) respect in the world declines in proportion to how vigorously we attempt to force others to adopt our point of view.
~ Philip Yancey
grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains that enslave generations.
~ Philip Yancey
Any Greek scholar will tell you the word blessed is far too sedate and beatific to carry the percussive force Jesus intended. The Greek word conveys something like a short cry of joy, Oh, you lucky person!
~ Philip Yancey
Western powers have learned a related and painful lesson in Iraq and Afghanistan: change imposed by force rarely produces the desired results. Likewise, a faith that matters grows best from the ground up, working its way through society gradually, without coercion.
~ Philip Yancey
Grace is Christianity's best gift to the world, a spiritual nova in our midst exerting a force stronger than vengeance, stronger than racism, stronger than hate.
~ Philip Yancey
defects. I escape the force of gravity again when
~ Philip Yancey