Force Quotes

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

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

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

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

So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

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

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

At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.

Force is not a remedy.

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.

Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.