Force Quotes

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.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable.

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

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

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.

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

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

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.

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities.

I want to force the other drivers to find a way past me.

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.