Quotes About Force

Still, connecting others to the world economy -voluntarily, by pressure, and even by force- constituted, in principle, their only road to sustained real growth and away from the material deprivation, stagnation, zero-sum competition, and high mortality of 'agraria'.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

The longing in him was a force of its own.

The mind does not balance when you force.

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

For the conduct of the war: at the first, men rested extremely upon number: they did put the wars likewise upon main force and valor; pointing days for pitched fields, and so trying it out upon an even match and they were more ignorant in ranging and arraying their battles. After, they grew to rest upon number rather competent, than vast; they grew to advantages of place, cunning diversions, and the like: and they grew more skilful in the ordering of their battles.

Progress is only possible in those happy cases where the force of legality has gone far enough to bind the nation together, but not far enough to kill out all varieties and destroy nature's perpetual tendency to change.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

In politics, as in physics, every reaction is met with an equal and opposite reaction.

You got to have a lot of mass to be able to produce a lot of ground reaction force, to function off of the ground, to press off of the ground.

Politics follows the lines of physics. Every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.

Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories?

Kane, my gosh, Kane is just incredibly strong.

Power draws you in; it's something we can gravitate toward.

Gravitation is the lust of the cosmos.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

Gravity is a really heavy force and you don't realize how heavy it is until you haven't felt it for six and a half months.

Gravity doesn't lie.