300 Quotes on Force

• When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

  Author: Stefan Zweig

• Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

  Author: David Zucker

• We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• 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.

  Author: Pieter Zeeman

• Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction rotating in opposite directions.

  Author: Pieter Zeeman

• According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.

  Author: Pieter Zeeman

• We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction of the magnetic lines of force we found that our result was confirmed.

  Author: Pieter Zeeman

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

  Author: Mao Zedong

• I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

  Author: Loretta Young

• A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

  Author: Francis Yockey

• Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

  Author: Francis Wright

• A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

  Author: William Wordsworth

• The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

  Author: Tiger Woods

• Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• My driving force is spirituality.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.

  Author: Chill Wills

• A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'

  Author: Gene Wilder

• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

  Author: Ella Wilcox

• True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

  Author: William White

• Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

  Author: Byron White

• I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.

  Author: William Whipple

• Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

  Author: William Whewell

• The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.

  Author: Julius Wellhausen

• Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

  Author: Thomas Watson

• Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

  Author: George Washington

• Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

  Author: George Washington

• Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

  Author: Earl Warren

• Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

  Author: George Wallace

• The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.

  Author: Alfred Wallace

• I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• Nature has always had more force than education.

  Author: Voltaire

• Water is the driving force of all nature.

  Author: Leonardo Vinci

• In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

  Author: Robert Vaughn

• Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.

  Author: Morihei Ueshiba

• I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

  Author: Mike Tyson

• Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

  Author: Anne Tyler

• To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

  Author: Paul Twitchell

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

  Author: Mark Twain

• Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

  Author: Ivan Turgenev

• To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

  Author: Harry Truman

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

  Author: Leon Trotsky

• Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

  Author: Leon Trotsky

• Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

  Author: Lars Trier

• Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

  Author: Mel Tillis

• When in doubt, use brute force.

  Author: Ken Thompson

• The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

  Author: Dorothy Thompson

• When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

  Author: Dorothy Thompson

• It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

  Author: Twyla Tharp

• Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.

  Author: Ernst Thalmann

• Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

  Author: Nikola Tesla

• He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

  Author: Terence

• The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

  Author: Ida Tarbell

• In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

  Author: Koichi Tanaka

• You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

  Author: Publilius Syrus

• But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.

  Author: Stuart Symington

• Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.

  Author: Stuart Symington

• 'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

  Author: Algernon Sydney

• There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

  Author: Anne Swetchine

• One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

  Author: Anne Swetchine

• In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

  Author: Anne Swetchine

• Why should a company like Wal-Mart - who made $10 billion last year alone - be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs?

  Author: John Sweeney

• I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.

  Author: Helen Suzman

• It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

  Author: William Sumner

• Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.

  Author: Peter Stuyvesant

• Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

  Author: Maurice Strong

• In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

  Author: Igor Stravinsky

• What force is more potent than love?

  Author: Igor Stravinsky

• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

  Author: J. Straczynski

• To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

  Author: Potter Stewart

• Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country.

  Author: Payne Stewart

• I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• Nothing made by brute force lasts.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.

  Author: Ted Stevens

• Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.

  Author: Leigh Steinberg

• Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

  Author: Edward Steichen

• Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

  Author: Edward Steichen

• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  Author: Ralph Steadman

• In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.

  Author: Robert Stack

• When I have sat at home with this God-given talent for music for a long time, somebody approaches me out of the blue and asks me to play for them. It's almost as though there's a force somewhere which is saying 'no sittin' around, out you go!

  Author: Jeremy Spencer

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

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

  Author: David Soul

• We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

  Author: Aaron Sorkin

• We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

  Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

  Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.

  Author: Georg Solti

• But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

  Author: William Smith

• This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

  Author: William Smith

• This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

  Author: Charles Smith

• It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.

  Author: Samuel Smiles

• When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.

  Author: Joe Slovo

• Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.

  Author: Alfred Sloan

• The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

  Author: Mark Skousen

• Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

  Author: Swami Sivananda

• I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.

  Author: Peter Singer

• I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.

  Author: Sinbad

• Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.

  Author: Bill Shuster

• Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

  Author: William Shenstone

• Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.

  Author: Robert Shea

• Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

  Author: George Shaw

• Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.

  Author: William Shatner

• In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making "Star Trek." But most of the time, I don't think about it.

  Author: William Shatner

• If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.

  Author: Lal Shastri

• Arabs respect only the language of force.

  Author: Moshe Sharett

• The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth.

  Author: Moshe Sharett

• The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?

  Author: Karl Shapiro

• Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher.

  Author: John Shadegg

• If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

  Author: Yahoo Serious

• Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

  Author: Pete Seeger

• The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves.

  Author: Dwight Schultz

• I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

  Author: Franz Schubert

• Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  Author: Wally Schirra

• The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.

  Author: Otto Schily

• Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.

  Author: Otto Schily

• There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

  Author: Otto Schily

• We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.

  Author: Otto Schily

• Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

  Author: Dorothy Sayers

• The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.

  Author: Girolamo Savonarola

• It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

  Author: George Santayana

• In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

  Author: Sallust

• The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

  Author: Carlos Salinas

• There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.

  Author: Pat Sajak

• Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

  Author: John Ruskin

• Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force.

  Author: Gerd Rundstedt

• The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements.

  Author: Gerd Rundstedt

• Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

  Author: Jane Rule

• Because I believe that abortion is murder, I also believe that force is justified in an attempt to stop it.

  Author: Eric Rudolph

• The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.

  Author: Warren Rudman

• Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

  Author: Vera Rubin

• Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

  Author: Jean Rousseau

• We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

  Author: Barney Ross

• The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

  Author: Elihu Root

• The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

  Author: Elihu Root

• Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• What you don't do can be a destructive force.

  Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

• I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.

  Author: Roy Romer

• I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down.

  Author: Richard Rogers

• Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

  Author: Nelson Rockefeller

• When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• From those few pending questions which the Commission would be called upon to solve at its fourth session, the most important one was the entry into force of the treaty.

  Author: Alfonso Robles

• I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.

  Author: Paul Robeson

• Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

  Author: Tom Robbins

• Trust is a great force multiplier.

  Author: Tom Ridge

• I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage.

  Author: Michael Richards

• The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

  Author: Adrienne Rich

• It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

  Author: Agnes Repplier

• Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

  Author: Publius Renatus

• God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.

  Author: John Reilly

• Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.

  Author: Rosser Reeves

• Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.

  Author: John Redmond

• I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

  Author: Ron Reagan

• Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

  Author: Yitzhak Rabin

• Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

  Author: Francois Rabelais

• If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

  Author: Manuel Puig

• Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

  Author: David Price

• Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

  Author: Colin Powell

• Well, because Dawn of the Dead can take place anywhere and it shows that actually the entire planet is contaminated, I would say that it shows the new face of our world - one person, one race, united against the invisible destructive force.

  Author: Sarah Polley

• If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

  Author: Letty Pogrebin

• All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

  Author: Max Planck

• There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.

  Author: Zebulon Pike

• I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

  Author: Zebulon Pike

• In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.

  Author: Ferdinand Piech

• When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.

  Author: Joaquin Phoenix

• Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

  Author: Laurence Peter

• We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

  Author: Richard Perle

• Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

  Author: William Penn

• Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

  Author: William Penn

• Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about.

  Author: Timothy Pawlenty

• This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.

  Author: Tom Paulin

• Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

  Author: Ron Paul

• All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.

  Author: Ron Paul

• Law, without force, is impotent.

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.

  Author: Evan Parker

• America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

  Author: Frank Oz

• Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

  Author: Wilfred Owen

• The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

  Author: John Orr

• This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

  Author: Sharon Olds

• Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

  Author: Olusegun Obasanjo

• 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.

  Author: Barack Obama

• I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

  Author: Paul Nurse

• After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.

  Author: Ivor Novello

• If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.

  Author: Charlie Norwood

• Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.

  Author: Charlie Norwood

• My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.

  Author: Jeremy Northam

• Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.

  Author: Lord North

• There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.

  Author: Denis Norden

• Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

  Author: Albert Nock

• Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

  Author: Stevie Nicks

• It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere.

  Author: Michael Nesmith

• But human nature is not to be totally changed even by such a force as the Reformation.

  Author: William Neilson

• Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

  Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

• Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

  Author: Holly Near

• There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

  Author: Gamal Nasser

• What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

  Author: Gamal Nasser

• Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.

  Author: Hassan Nasrallah

• I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

  Author: Janet Napolitano

• Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example.

  Author: Pervez Musharraf

• Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.

  Author: Pervez Musharraf

• We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

  Author: Yoweri Museveni

• The dedication of the United States Air Force, Special Forces, and others involved in the mission to tracking down terrorists can not be matched. We express our gratitude to these men and women who defend the freedom America represents.

  Author: Tim Murphy

• A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

  Author: John Motley

• The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.

  Author: John Motley

• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  Author: Lance Morrow

• The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

  Author: Jim Morrison

• Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.

  Author: John Morley

• The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

  Author: Samuel Morison

• Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love.

  Author: Sun Moon

• Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

  Author: Mary Montagu

• By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

  Author: James Monroe

• At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.

  Author: Joni Mitchell

• Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

  Author: John Milton

• NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.

  Author: Slobodan Milosevic

• I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out.

  Author: Larry Miller

• I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

  Author: John Mill

• The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.

  Author: Nelson Miles

• I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen.

  Author: James Meredith

• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

  Author: Karl Menninger

• I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

  Author: H. Mencken

• Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

  Author: H. Mencken

• Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

  Author: Andrew Mellon

• We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.

  Author: Kendrick Meek

• When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the enemy.

  Author: Timothy McVeigh

• Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

  Author: Mignon McLaughlin

• Trying to force creativity is never good.

  Author: Sarah McLachlan

• A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.

  Author: Nancy McKeon

• Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

  Author: Bryant McGill

• The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.

  Author: John McDonald

• You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.

  Author: Page McConnell

• The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

  Author: Pete McCloskey

• As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

  Author: Mary McCarthy

• The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.

  Author: John McCarthy

• The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

  Author: Andre Maurois

• Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.

  Author: Kathy Mattea

• 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.

  Author: Karl Marx

• Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

  Author: Judith Martin

• Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

  Author: Judith Martin

• The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

  Author: Jose Marti

• Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

  Author: William Marston

• One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

  Author: Peter Marshall

• Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

  Author: Alfred Marshall

• A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

  Author: Orison Marden

• If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.

  Author: Peter Mandelson

• The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

  Author: Andre Malraux

• I believe in a higher force that is within me.

  Author: Tobey Maguire

• There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.

  Author: Magnus Magnusson

• If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.

  Author: Peter MacKay

• It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

  Author: Jack Lynch

• Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.

  Author: Arthur Lydiard

• I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.

  Author: Lydia Lunch

• I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

  Author: Rob Lowe

• I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.

  Author: Courtney Love

• Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

  Author: Lawrence Lovasik

• The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.

  Author: Trent Lott

• My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

  Author: Pierre Loti

• And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today.

  Author: Mike Lookinland

• May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.

  Author: Henry Lodge, Jr.

• We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.

  Author: Henry Lodge

• When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government.

  Author: David Lloyd

• And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks.

  Author: James Lipton

• The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.

  Author: Robert Lifton

• 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.

  Author: Karl Liebknecht

• Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

  Author: Daniel Leon

• 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.

  Author: Gyorgy Legeti

• Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

  Author: Nigella Lawson

• New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend.

  Author: John Lawson

• I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.

  Author: Cyndi Lauper

• Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

  Author: Christopher Lasch

• As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

  Author: Rose Lane

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