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Quotes About Force

Having right over others is something shameful. It's using force.
~ Anne Holm
Walter Parmenter sometimes seemed to his daughter a restless subterranean force held together by rituals.
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
Así un buen pensamiento se mantiene como una fuerza activa y benéfica, y uno malo como un maléfico
~ Annie Besant
This non-proletarianised plebs has been racialist when it has been colonialist; it has been nationalist - chauvinist - when it has been armed; and it has been fascist when it has become the police force.These ideological effects on the plebs have been uncontestable and profound.
~ Michel Foucault
One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
~ Fatema Mernissi
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
~ Paul Nurse
With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
~ Renee Fleming
You can't have force structure without proper training, without proper equipment, without proper leadership, without proper funding to conduct exercises and perform maintenance.
~ Joseph Dunford
To state that lethal force should not be used without a proper legal justification is to state the obvious.
~ Keir Starmer
Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest.
~ Pieter Zeeman
I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.
~ Mary Oliver
The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
~ Leon Panetta
We have been protecting the lives of the Russian peacekeepers who had been attacked by their Georgian comrades, because there was a joint peacekeeping force.
~ Sergei Lavrov
My career and my stats, they all speak for itself so to say that I've got anything to prove to people, to say 'well, look, I can play, I'm not just a big guy,' that really is not my driving force in life.
~ Adebayo Akinfenwa
Historically, religion has often proved a more lethal and more divisive force than any secular ideology. It has also often been a more divisive force than race.
~ Linda Colley
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
~ Euripides
Mighty is geometry joined with art resistless.
~ Euripides
Dream not thou that force is power; Nor, if thou hast a thought, and that thought sour And sick, oh, dream not thought is wisdom!
~ Euripides
For if I permitted this altar to be violated by force by a strange man, I shall not seem to inhabit a free country.
~ Euripides
We cannot force Fortune against her will.
~ Euripides
all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You intoxicated me. It was just as though you were making me love you by some invisible force.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was a body capable of enormous leverage - a cruel body.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thought can be lofty without being elegant, but to the extent it lacks elegance it will have less effect on others. Force without finesse is mere mass.
~ Fernando Pessoa