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Quotes About Force

One hundred rounds do not constitute fire power. One hit constitutes fire power.
~ Merritt A. Edson
The Prince of the power of the air seems to bend all the force of his attack against the spirit of prayer.
~ Bonar Law
Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.
~ Alexander P. de Seversky
Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.
~ Laozi
The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.
~ Rudy Giuliani
Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.
~ Anthony de Jasay
The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.
~ Werner Herzog
I am not a human being, I am dynamite.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.
~ Frank Herbert
Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.
~ William A. Dembski
We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.
~ Ed Buckner
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
~ Lincoln Chafee
If the guy has a gun, that's the power. He doesn't need to wave the gun; he just needs to point the gun in a very relaxed fashion.
~ Robert Loggia
Black is a colour of power and strength.
~ Hayden Fry
States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
~ Leo Tolstoy
In this world, all power rests upon force.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.
~ Michael Shaara
Strength times strength times strength times strength times strength times strength means power.
~ Oprah Winfrey