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Quotes About Force

What the United States needs is for a unifying, positive, aspirational force to sweep through our national community. American conservatives have a generational opportunity to become precisely this kind of force. We have a shot, if we take it, to help every single American build a better life, and unite our nation in the process.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.
~ David Seabury
The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.
~ Howard Staunton
The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.
~ Ferdinand Lassalle
Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.
~ Gloria Steinem
The more force we generate, the more force the body has to absorb.
~ Justin Rose
Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
~ Robert Blair
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
~ Pierre Corneille
There's a lot of distrust of the United States, and I certainly see that. But at the same time, everything that I've seen is that the U.S. is a genuine force for good in the world.
~ Dara Khosrowshahi
Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
~ Karl Liebknecht
I started out taking any project that I could because you want the work. You want the opportunity to create, and I'm glad I did because it forces you to really get an understanding of your vision and your voice as a designer when you have to be scrappy like that.
~ Jeremiah Brent
The way you stop a takedown in wrestling is to meet force with force. You don't try to go away.
~ Justin Gaethje
A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.
~ Frederick Douglass
At last, the evening previous to our arrival at Liverpool, the slaveholders, convinced that reason, morality, common honesty, humanity, and Christianity, were all against them, and that argument was no longer any means of defence, or at least but a poor means, abandoned their post in debate, and resorted to their old and natural mode of defending their morality by brute force.
~ Frederick Douglass
A man, without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him; and even this it cannot do long, if the signs of power do not arise.
~ Frederick Douglass
that is a measure of how much you and the planet Earth attract each other;
~ Frederik Pohl
O sacred light, walking there upon us, restlessly potent in its tremendous realm, disclosing its soul to me as well, in the rays that I drink, your luck be mine! From their deeds the sons of the sun nourish themselves; they live by victory; with own spirit they rouse themselves, and their force is their mirth.
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Excess of strength alone is proof of strength
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
You force all things to flow towards you and into you, so that they shall flow back again out of your fountain as the gifts of your love.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I am no man, I am dynamite
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I am not a man, I am dynamite
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The subject as multiplicity. Pain as intellectual and totally dependent on the judgement harmful projected outwards. Pleasure is a kind of pain. The effect is always unconscious. The inferred and imagined cause is transposed onto what follows in time. The only force that exists produces the same effect as the will: it commands other subjects, which change as a result. The continuous, fleeting, transitory nature of the subject. Mortal soul. Number as a form of perspective.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In all truly productive men instinct is the strong, affirmative force and reason the dissuader and critic.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche