Forces Quotes

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him. (Jonathan Swift)
All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing. View quote
Edmund Burke
The imagination is one of the forces of nature. View quote
Wallace Stevens
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Pain forces even the innocent to lie. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Don't fight forces, use them. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. View quote
Richard Perle
Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties. View quote
George Soros
Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before. View quote
Norman Mailer
It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it, necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives. (Robert McNamara)
For me nature is not a landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces - an event rather than an appearance. View quote
Bridget Riley
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces. View quote
Philip Zimbardo
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. View quote
George Orwell
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. View quote
Hippocrates
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. View quote
Isaac Newton
There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent. View quote
John Mott
It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it. (Emily Greene Balch)
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature. View quote
Elihu Root
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. View quote
Julius Caesar
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham