Quotes About Force

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.

The thing I hate about religion is, they ban what they have done and force us to do what they haven't done.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law.

Brutality creates respect.

I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

No sooner had the words passed his lips than he was taken up and whisked into the moat with prodigious force; and the fairies came crowding round about him with great anger, screeching and screaming and roaring out, "Who spoiled our tune? Who spoiled our tune?"

If they will not understand that we are bringing them a mathematically faultless happiness, our duty will be to force them to be happy. But before we take up arms, we shall try the power of words.

what is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive? Let me tell you—history is, unlike what they say on the loudspeakers, not driven by revolutionary force but by people's desire to climb up onto someone else's neck and shit and pee as he or she wants. Enough bad things are done by men already, but if you add women to the equation, one might as well wish not to bring a baby into this world.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something then you're more willing to take risks.

Si la littérature est réellement dotée d'une force mystérieuse, c'est bien celle-là: la possibilité pour un lecteur de retrouver ses propres impressions dans l'œuvre d'un écrivain d'une autre époque, d'un autre pays, d'un autre peuple, d'une autre langue et d'une autre culture.

Ordinary bourgeois life held no force sufficiently compelling to drag one out into the chill drizzle without so much as an umbrella.

The Imperial Concubine was fully aware of her own beauty, and she tended to be attracted by any force, such as religion, that treated her beauty and her high rank as things of no value.

La paura che nasce dal desiderio] scuote terribilmente ma non causa profonde ferite. Tormenta la nostra anima ma al tempo stesso la alimenta, la rinvigorisce. E' l'azione di una forza misteriosa che conferisce al cuore umano uno stato di passività e gli dona la capacità di elevarsi, per poterlo trascinare in un luogo segreto designato dagli Dei.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

The wandering bands of storytelling Sapiens were the most important and most destructive force the animal kingdom had ever produced.

As human fictions are translated into genetic and electronic codes, the intersubjective reality will swallow up the objective reality and biology will merge with history. In the twenty-first century fiction might thereby become the most potent force on earth, surpassing even wayward asteroids and natural selection.

Of all human collective activities, the one most difficult to organise is violence.