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Quotes About Force

Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers
~ Hanan Ashrawi
The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.
~ Bruce Lee
John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.
~ Howard Hawks
An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation
~ Steven Levitt
Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be.
~ Mao Zedong
The force of love, the force of reunion is unstoppable.
~ Charles Eisenstein
Come then, ye generous citizens, range yourselves under the standard of General Liberty, against which all the force and artifice of tyranny will never be able to prevail. General
~ Willard Sterne Randall
He reasoned because human consciousness is a part of universal life, that the part may not be greater than the whole. Therefore he concluded that the purposive force which directs life, which guides the stars in their courses and spurs and speeds the energies inside the atom, is of itself a consciousness.
~ William Allen White
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
~ William Bligh
awesome power of Thermo!
~ William Boniface
It is the difference between hitting with a pillow and hitting with a baseball bat.
~ William Brohaugh
Notwithstanding our boastful assertions to the world, for nearly a century, that our government was based on the consent of the people, it rests upon force, as much as any government that ever existed. - Robert E. Lee
~ William C. Davis
As to the power which money gives, it is that of brute force, it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet, and of the bribed press, tongue and pen.
~ William Cobbett
The tide of life, swift always in its course, May run in cities with a brisker force, But nowhere with a current so serene, Or half so clear, as in the rural scene.
~ William Cowper
To subdue and crush the masses of a nation by military force, when all are unanimous in the determination to be free, is to attempt the imprisonment of a whole people; all such projects must be temporary and transient, and terminate in a catastrophe...
~ William Dalrymple
The three great armies of the Mughal world had come together to defeat the Company and expel it from India. When instead it was the Mughals that were defeated, the Company was left the dominant military force in north-east India. Buxar confirmed the Company's control of Bengal and the coast and opened the way for them to extend their influence far inland to the west.
~ William Dalrymple
Hit hard, hit fast, hit often!
~ William F. Halsey
He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.
~ William Gibson
Here, then, there would be a question of rights. The question whether voluntary charity is mischievous or not is one thing; the question whether legislation which forces one man to aid another is right and wise, as well as economically beneficial, is quite another question. Great
~ William Graham Sumner
Capital, however, as we have seen, is the force by which civilization is maintained and carried on. The
~ William Graham Sumner
Prayer to the saints is as the great artillery to an army—of great use to defend them, and of as great force to do execution upon their enemies; it therefore needs the stronger guard to be set about it, lest it be taken from them, or turned against them by the enemy.
~ William Gurnall
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
~ William Hazlitt
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
~ William Hazlitt