Quotes About Force

Should an individual or a government use force at all, even in retaliation? Clearly yes; complete pacifism is self-defeating.

The only government tolerated by libertarians is one that exercises only retaliatory use of force on anyone who initiates the use of force against anyone else within its borders.

energy begets energy.

He'd known only that, in the end, the Force hadn't helped her. Or any of the other Jedi he'd heard about.

And the Force? Well, it might be with him, or it might not. Kanan would get by, either way. He always had.

When the Emperor and his notorious apprentice, Darth Vader, find themselves stranded in the middle of insurgent action on an inhospitable planet, they must rely solely on each other, the Force, and their awesome martial skills to prevail.

may the Force be with you all while we wait with bated breath for Star Wars: The Force Awakens!

Whether this is your first Star Wars adventure, or one of many over the years: Thank you. Thank you for your dedication to and passion for the Star Wars galaxy. Because of fans like you around the world, the Force will be with us, always. Dave Filoni Executive Producer and Supervising Director, Star Wars Rebels

the mystical Force, the energy field all Jedi drew upon for strength, could come in handy.

You see how I go on—like so many strokes of a hammer. I cannot help it—I am impell'd, driven to it.

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

I did not stop to think that one wave is inevitably followed by another even larger and more powerful, when the tide is coming in.

Truth and falsehood are arbitrary terms. . . . There is nothing in experience to tell us that one is always preferable to the other. . . . There are lifeless truths and vital lies. . . . The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false.

The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false.

first great collision between a natural force and a society that included individuals who refused either to submit to that force or to simply call upon divine intervention to

Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

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.

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.

There is no equality without coercion.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

Faith is a creative force. When we operate by faith, we employ the creative power of God.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.