Quotes About Force

In the twenty-first century fiction might thereby become the most potent force on earth, surpassing even wayward asteroids and natural selection.

You can do many things with bayonets, but it is rather uncomfortable to sit on them.

When humans domesticated fire, they gained control of an obedient and potentially limitless force.

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Yet the Soviet elite, and the Communist regimes through most of eastern Europe (Romania and Serbia were the exceptions), chose not to use even a tiny fraction of this military power. When its members realised that Communism was bankrupt, they renounced force, admitted their failure, packed their suitcases and went home.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

War can only be abolished through war ... in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Her long legs struck forcefully forward as if she pressed her toes watchfully on the accelerator of the universe.

If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull

the largest locomotive in the world can be held in its tracks while standing still simply by placing a single one-inch block of wood in front of each of the eight drive wheels. The same locomotive moving at 100 miles per hour can crash through a wall of steel-reinforced concrete five feet thick. That

When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.

Does the river make the choice to erode the rock?

Fear causes the greatest changes, when you think about it. Fear is a monumental force.

a lack of influence is of course its own kind of influence.

Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the popular ideal, it is the wizard's love - the force that upholds life and nurtures it.

There is a force of love present everywhere and it can be trusted to bring your own life into order and peace.

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature, and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.

When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.

In all practically relevant cases, governments—or more accurately the individuals involved in governmental process—do possess the power to coerce.

There can be no forced inspiration.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Forget jumping grains of sand—that was enough energy to displace a chunk of desert.

The military may have been in charge, but the irrepressible life force that is woman—that was well beyond their control. The only thing that would be temporary was the war.