Force quotes
886 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core."
"Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation."
"All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force."
"Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think."
"We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression."
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"No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force."
"We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love."
"Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it"
"You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you."
"The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force."
"Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place."
"Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive."
"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."
"When two forces unite, their efficiency double."
"The imagination is one of the forces of nature."
"Love is the force that leaves you colorless"
"You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you."
"A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force."
"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity."
"The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do."
"Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind."
"Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are."
"You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption."
"The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves."
"The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose."
