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Quotes About Force

Protestant church tradition developed over several centuries when Christians were not yet forced, by virtue of the culminating evidence, to see the Bible in its ancient context.
~ Unknown
The universe was not built on integrity. In the face of weakness, force can and will triumph. All you can do is choose who wields that force. Us or the Starflyer.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
I don't get it. There's nothing here. Send your invasion force halfway across the galaxy so they can build a five star ski resort? That's crazy.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
From Bonney's position it was as if a small fusion bomb had detonated above her, sending its billowing mushroom cloud hurtling downwards. "All this," she cried disbelievingly, "for me?
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Now Savi was playing her part in making sure no other innocents got hurt by psychotic ideologues who believed they had an absolute right to use force to achieve their goal.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
You couldn't geneer that quality, it was a demonstration that the incest taboo was finally starting to lose force among Downtown residents.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
After graduation she saw several active deployments in the Urban Rapid Suppression Force. Then her parents were killed by a drone bomb some bunch of anti-imperialist anarchist whack-jobs launched at the sneering symbol of their evil foreign economic oppressors—or, in English, the Italian remote drone systems factory where her father worked.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
must remember that military force ultimately exists to serve the civilian populace, even though we might despise their choice of leaders.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
The hostile force! The reasone the barrier was established. "Astrophysics, do we know what's causing that?" "No, sir," Bruno said cheerfully. "Not a clue".
~ Peter F. Hamilton
In short, the 1870s illustrated the force of the remark that antisemitism rises and falls in inverse relationship to the stock market. In that decade, when the market crashed, bigotry rose.
~ Unknown
Wynn had seen it before: injured people who had barely enough energy to shift a little, to eat, but not enough to talk. Strange that words took so much life force.
~ Peter Heller
And if any man said to him, “The fat must be burned first; then you may take whatever you want,” the servant would reply, “No, you must give it to me right now. If you refuse, I will take it by force!”
~ 1 Samuel 2:16
Under their authority was an army of 307,500 trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies.
~ 2 Chronicles 26:13
They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
~ Job 24:4
With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.
~ Job 30:18
He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?
~ Psalm 147:17
Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself.
~ John 6:15
The dispute grew so violent that the commander was afraid they would tear Paul to pieces. He ordered the soldiers to go down and remove him by force and bring him into the barracks.
~ Acts 23:10