[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.

When I think of the play of force and matter, and all the tremendous struggle of it, I feel as if I could write an epic on the grass.

No, I won’t marry you. I won’t do it. No one can force me.

Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk

I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved

A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.9.

If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the public will force the removal of those ugly pieces of twisted metal that are called ‘art’ in front of government buildings

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism

Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.

When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for the honor and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon

Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly recognized by all:-For a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it; and to be free, it is sufficient that she wills it

There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something in them that either shock our reason, or are repugnant to it, and man, if he thinks at all, must stifle his reason in order to force himself to believe them

I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake

He forced himself into good spirits.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Taxidermy inhabits a half-life, an underpass between life and death. He is oddly vital, still possessed of an animating force, not as defunct as a corpse yet still nowhere near living. A talisman trapped between escape and dust

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues

Never let fear be your guiding force.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And hold on when there’s nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force

My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose it’s jplace

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Love is the strongest force in the world.

Do you know what hurts so very much? It’s love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

Perpetual optimism is a force leveler

Perpetual Optimism is a Force Multiplier.

We refuse to disappear, no matter how strong and brutal and ruthless the forces against us might be.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

The key that unlocks energy is ‘Desire’. It’s also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success.

The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

Paperwork will ruin any military force.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

There are only two main theories of government in our world. One rests on righteousness and the other on force. One appeals to reason, and the other appeals to the sword. One is exemplified in the republic, the other is represented by despotism

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way

Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is a force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a handy servant and a dangerous master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

Concentrate a big force to strike at a small section of the enemy force” remains a principle of field operations in guerrilla warfare.

If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you.

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

I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don’t want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses.

He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force, and both of these elements are suspects to the one whom he has made powerful.

The moon gravitates towards the earth, and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

A vulgar mechanic can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub.

Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phænomena of Nature?

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

I don’t want to be cross, love cannot be forced.

The record companies pressure me to force my songs because the stores want them to sell. I will not force my songs for them.

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

I won’t say that I’m an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know… but I’m not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

We are not our own masters, but instruments in the hands of the forces that created us.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.

I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

Faith is a knowledge of the meaning of human life, the consequence of which is that man does not kill himself but lives. Faith is the force of life. If a man lives, then he must believe in something. Without faith it is impossible to live.

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.