Force Quotes

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.

Law, without force, is impotent.

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

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

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

United States and Coalition forces will remain in Iraq and will operate under American command as part of a multinational force authorized by the United Nations.

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making "Star Trek." But most of the time, I don't think about it.

There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.