Quotes on Force

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

Author: Jack Adams

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Author: Joseph Addison

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Author: Aesop

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Author: Aesop

Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.

Author: Bill Alexander

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

Author: Christiane Amanpour

Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.

Author: John Amery

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

Author: Jon Anderson

If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.

Author: Michael Anderson

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

Author: Mackenzie Astin

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

Author: James Barrie

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation.

Author: Tim Bishop

Let each produce according to his aptitudes and his force; let each consume according to his need.

Author: Louis Blanc

Don't force it, get a bigger hammer.

Author: Arthur Bloch

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

Author: William Blum

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

Author: Anna Brackett

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

Author: F. Bradley

Force is not a remedy.

Author: John Bright

Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

Author: Ray Brown

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Author: Edmund Burke

We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.

Author: Dick Cheney

And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.

Author: Chris Chocola

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

Author: Anatoly Chubais

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Author: Marcus Cicero

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.

Author: William Clinton

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

Author: Edward Coke

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Author: Robert Collier

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

Author: Calvin Coolidge

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

Author: Pierre Corneille

During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.

Author: George Crook

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Author: Charles Curtis

The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.

Author: Peter DeFazio

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Author: Don DeLillo

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Author: Harold Dodds

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Author: Harold Dodds

The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

Author: Hermann Ebbinghaus

There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet.

Author: Suzanne Fields

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

Author: Richard Foreman

I do feel we can create more jobs and opportunities for Jersey City residents, but in the spirit of free enterprise, I do not think it is right to force companies to hire a fixed percentage of local residents.

Author: Vincent Frank

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

Author: Felix Frankfurter

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

Author: Morgan Freeman

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

Right reason is stronger than force.

Author: James Garfield

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

Author: Henry George

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

Author: Ellen Glasgow

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

Author: Zane Grey

I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos.

Author: Bo Gritz

Force is the weapon of the weak.

Author: Ammon Hennacy

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

Author: George Herbert

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Author: Herodotus

It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities.

Author: Rudolf Hiferding

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

Author: Lauryn Hill

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

Author: Adolf Hitler

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

Author: Thomas Hobbes

It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.

Author: James Hogg

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

Author: Kin Hubbard

So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force.

Author: E. Hunt

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment. It's not about trying to force any particular style within the parameters - and the parameters we play in are pretty large!

Author: Charlie Hunter

Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations.

Author: Duncan Hunter

We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt.

Author: King Hussein I

It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.

Author: James Iha

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

Author: Kim Il

Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security.

Author: Igor Ivanov

Disunion by force is treason.

Author: Andrew Jackson

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Author: William James

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers.

Author: Akhmad Kadyrov

We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.

Author: Akhmad Kadyrov

Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.

Author: Hamid Karzai

They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with.

Author: Nicole Kidman

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.

Author: Leo Kottke

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

Author: Karl Kraus

The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

Author: Joseph Lancaster

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

Author: Jack Lynch

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

I believe in a higher force that is within me.

Author: Tobey Maguire

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

Author: Andre Malraux

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

Author: Jose Marti

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

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

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

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

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

Author: John Milton

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

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

Author: Gamal Nasser

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

Author: Holly Near

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

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

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

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

Author: Blaise Pascal

Law, without force, is impotent.

Author: Blaise Pascal

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

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

Author: William Penn

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

Author: Richard Perle

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

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

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

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

Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

Author: Jean Rousseau

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

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

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

Author: Bertrand Russell

Arabs respect only the language of force.

Author: Moshe Sharett

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

Author: William Shatner

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

Author: Hugh Shelton

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

Author: Agnes Smedley

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

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

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

Author: Ralph Steadman

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Author: Edward Steichen

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

Author: Leigh Steinberg

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Author: Robert Stevenson

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

Author: Potter Stewart

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

Author: J. Straczynski

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

Author: Maurice Strong

'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

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Author: Publilius Syrus

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

Author: Nikola Tesla

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

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

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

Author: Mel Tillis

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

Author: Leon Trotsky

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

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

Author: Benjamin Tucker

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

Author: Mark Twain

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

Author: Mike Tyson

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

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

Author: Thomas Watson

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

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

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

Author: Alfred Whitehead

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

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

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

Author: Loretta Young

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

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