Force Quotes - page 7

There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters. (James Burnham)
The longer the battle lasts the more force we'll have to use! View quote
Georgy Zhukov
Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy. View quote
Kofi Annan
You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done. View quote
Kofi Annan
Do not let habit, born from experience, force you along this road, directing aimless eye and echoing ear and tongue; but judge by reason the much contested proof which I have spoken. View quote
Parmenides
Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy. View quote
Michael Shermer
When I contemplate the natural dignity of man, when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for the honour and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon. View quote
Thomas Paine
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. ... If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules. View quote
William Hazlitt
In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body. View quote
Maimonides
The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together. View quote
Arthur Compton
For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way. (Muhammad Reza Pahlavi)
The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. View quote
Irving Berlin
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. View quote
Paulo Coelho
When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force. View quote
Paulo Coelho
I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
... science is the most revolutionary force in the world. View quote
George Sarton
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. View quote
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. View quote
Ayn Rand
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others. View quote
Ayn Rand
There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns. (Ayn Rand)
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form. View quote
Ayn Rand
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. View quote
Ayn Rand
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. View quote
Ayn Rand
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. View quote
Ayn Rand