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Quotes About Force

denial. It rose up out of him, and rushed towards her. He came at her with all his power, all his Skills, all
~ S.F. Said
Shi-va is the centripetal force that holds existence together; Shakti is the centrifugal force that gives rise to the explosive diversity of existence. In
~ Sadhguru
Men are attracted by spirit. By power men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
~ Malcolm X
As testimony to the power of redemption and the force of human personality, the autobiography of Malcolm X is a revelation.
~ Malcolm X
The willingness to use force usually means you won't have to. It is a paradox because our modern culture conditions us to believe violence attracts violence, and violence never solves anything.
~ Marc MacYoung
If you try violence, I will defend." Perhaps defend isn't the best term; retaliate is better.
~ Marc MacYoung
Parece que en esto radicaría la supuesta magia que obra un buen poema: ideas, recuerdos y todos los detalles de un escenario presente y la acción que lo ocupa tienen igual rango y el mismo peso; infundido de una fuerza verbal animadora (pero vaga), el mundo irradia particularidad.
~ Marcelo Cohen
Stoics held that material objects alone existed; but immanent in the material universe was a spiritual force which acted through them, manifesting itself under many forms, as fire, aether, spirit, soul, reason, the ruling principle.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The Stoic system of physics was materialism with an infusion of pantheism. In contradiction to Plato's view that the Ideas, or Prototypes, of phenomena alone really exist, the Stoics held that material objects alone existed; but immanent in the material universe was a spiritual force which acted through them, manifesting itself under many forms, as fire, aether, spirit, soul, reason, the ruling principle.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Pneuma is the power—the vital breath—that animates animals and humans. It is, in Dylan Thomas's phrase, "the force that through the green fuse drives the flower," and is present even in lifeless materials like stone or metal as the energy that holds the object together—the
~ Marcus Aurelius
I'm sorry there is so much pain in this story. I'm sorry it's in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there is nothing I can do to change it. I've tried to put some of the good things in as well. Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them?
~ Margaret Atwood
the best and most cost-effective way to control women for reproductive and other purposes was through women themselves. For this there were many historical precedents; in fact, no empire imposed by force or otherwise has ever been without this feature: control of the indigenous by members of their own group.
~ Margaret Atwood
Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.
~ Margaret Atwood
In the dark parlor we move away from each other, slowly, as if pulled towards each other by a force, current, pulled apart also by hands equally strong. I
~ Margaret Atwood
monopolio cada vez mayor del uso de la fuerza
~ Margaret MacMillan
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
~ Jacques Ellul
Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature
~ Al Gore
The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.
~ Herbert Marcuse
I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.
~ Gyorgy Ligeti
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
~ Karl Marx
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
~ Victor Hugo
God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
~ Ralph Fiennes
When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.
~ Tom Hayden
The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be very powerful, like a tidal wave.
~ Frederick Lenz