Force Quotes

It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

Disunion by force is treason.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.

Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.

I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.

I believe in a higher force that is within me.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.

In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Nature has always had more force than education.

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.

The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.

Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction rotating in opposite directions.

Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore.

What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.

More than ever, Romania now needs to see that a force exists that puts an end to Ponta and Antonescu's abuses and coup d'etat. This force is none other than the Romanian people.

In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.

Let each produce according to his aptitudes and his force; let each consume according to his need.

Don't force it, get a bigger hammer.

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.