Force Quotes

Force has no place where there is need of skill. (Herodotus)
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. View quote
Colin Powell
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Persuasion is better than force. View quote
Aesop
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. View quote
William Hazlitt
The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations. View quote
David Friedman
The main force in man - is the power of the spirit. View quote
Yuri Gagarin
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. View quote
Albert Einstein
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
When in doubt, use brute force. (Ken Thompson)
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves... is what I call hell. View quote
André Malraux
Patience will achieve more than force. View quote
Edmund Burke
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. View quote
Vera Rubin
What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining? View quote
George Wallace
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. View quote
Denis Diderot
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. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. View quote
Alan Kay
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. (Dorothy L. Sayers)
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. View quote
Edmund Burke
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. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar