Force Quotes
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"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish."
"In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms."
"Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own.I am the force."
"Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear."
"When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?' Answer: 'Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.' That was my mood."
"An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes."
"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade..."
"The energy it took to exit mother’s womb is the same force required to manifest a dream...a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push!"
"To get him to agree, I put a gun to his head. To get him to not change his mind, I blew out his brains."
"Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously."
"Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable...and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power."
"The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control."
"Without sound,There would be no music.And without music,There would be no life.And without a life force,There would be no matter.But it does not matter -Because what is matter,If there is no light?"
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man."
"When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough."
"Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned."
"A seeker of radical strenght Keeps everything on track, Feeble force yields at length, Not sure where to go back. When one can't find courage, And all the efforts seem vain, It's advised to fight like a sage: Be powerful like a bullet train! Too much work and no play Can make a brain go astray! Determined to live and stay Can lead life into a long way."
"So, there’s this hornet’s nest. And there’s this long stick. And then there’s me. How I walk away from all of this will depend on whether I realize that some things go together and some things don’t no matter how hard you try."
"I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a fraction of the force they will bring against us. They will kill us, all of us, for we are slaves and we cannot be allowed even the barest hope of freedom. Without us, they have no empire."
"A fundamental approach to life transformation is using social media for therapy; it forces you to have an opinion, provides intellectual stimulation, increases awareness, boosts self-confidence, and offers the possibility of hope."
"as long as there arehuman beings aboutthere is never going to beany peacefor any individualupon this earth (oranywhere elsethey mightescape to).all you can dois maybe grabten lucky minuteshereor maybe an hourthere.somethingis working toward youright now, andI mean youand nobody butyou."
Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
"Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell."
"Is there any force like faith?"
"Faith is the force of action."
"Faith is an active force."
"Words and magic are two powerful forces that can change the world."
"The thing I hate about religion is, they ban what they have done and force us to do what they haven’t done."
"When you are pushed to the wall, you will act and do things you have never done before."
"Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people."
"When it comes to change; feelings like frustrations, anger and irritations can easily be converted by each person to become a powerful force of change."
"If you are going to speak out against injustice, if you are angry at ungodliness in the society, then you have the opposing force to contend against."
"Your insult by the ungodliness and injustice in the land is a force."
"You must build and develop a greater force on the inside of you, in this way, you will be able to speak and stand against ungodliness and injustice in the land."
"To some extent, it is almost blasphemous to think that insult, anger and irritation could be a positive force."
"Our anger could become a force of deliverance."
"There is no other force destroying us like ignorance."
"Love can never be required or forced"
"Reading is a powerful force that illuminates the darkness. Unfortunately, few have the courage to walk against the world in search of knowledge that transforms reality."
"The power of knowledge is so great and forceful, if only we knew."
"It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles."
"It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished."
"The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does. But what will become of us if he marries and and begets other suns?"
"Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind."
"When you can actually measure your day by how much time is converted into products, then you are a great force on the earth."
"Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky..."
"The people of God are the driving force of every nation"
"Love is such a tremendous force of feeling! When you can't stop loving, you simply cannot stop it."
"Love is the most powerful force on earth. The end of fear is where love begins. Then nothing can overcome you."
"Love is a fearless force."
"If your heart tends to force friends to do as you say,seed of discord is being planted in your relationship."
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