Quotes About Force

Mel exhaled. Why are you forcing me into the voice-of-reason role? You know that never works out for us.

Should I have held them down and poured boiling water over them until they talked? Really, I'd like your expert advice. "Of course not. You would use boiling oil.

This was why we fought to survive. For love. Vincent had it all wrong. I'd had it wrong. Love wasn't the most destructive force in the universe. Love is the universe. That is the point.

She needed to scream two little words. But Jo didn't surrender; she Hulk-smashed. She squeezed until things broke.

Gods, she was as exquisite as her scent— Wham! The demons tackled him with the force of a freight train, flattening him on the field, piling on top of him.

This was why we fought to survive. For love. Vincent had it all wrong. I'd had it wrong. Love wasn't the most destructive force in the universe. Love is the universe. That is the point. Between breaths, Jack said, "So this is snow, huh?" He'd never seen it before. Excitement bubbled up, and I started laughing. I pressed the radio button. "Isn't it amazing? Everything looks clean.

Hatred made me rise. Hatred forced one foot in front of the other as I staggered away from the graves. With each step, blood dripped from my ragged fingers, dotting a trail across the vast black gravestone. A tether from me to Jack.

Your big finish is rolling in like a thunderstorm. No stopping it.

An invisible force. Like two magnets.

I have oscillated between faith and doubt for many years but have come to accept that there is a force which I feel within but which I cannot explain.

There were also rules, he said, that applied to how to treat captured enemies. "You can't use force just to interrogate.

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.