The Force Quotes

It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.

Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.

The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.

I don't think we need to have an either/or debate about the use of military force - I think you can be both tough and smart.

I think there should be national standards on the use of legal force.

We have an authorization to use military force against terrorists. We passed it after 9/11.

We have to work to make sure that our police are using the best training, the best techniques, that they're well prepared to use force only when necessary.

I don't really want to force anyone to feel a specific way, but if they can keep their body and mind "floating" with my music, that pleases me.

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

The force of union conquers all.

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

Force without reason falls of its own weight.

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.

Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.

I had volunteered for the Air Force and was an enthusiastic bombardier. While dropping bombs on Europe, I generally didn't understand what I was doing.

Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined.

We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

I don't think people should try to force their will on their family.

Anybody who has anybody in the armed forces, I don't care how well-trained they are, there's nothing safe about it.

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.

Faith is an active creative force.

When man obliterates wilderness, he repudiates the life force, which put him on this planed in a bad way, and in a truly terrifying sense, he is on his own.

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

Voldemort’s fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb.

Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.

You sometimes have to join forces with those you'd rather avoid.

If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.

Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.

We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

I don’t want to sleep alone,” she says gently. And I don’t force her to. Sarai falls fast asleep curled up next to me in my bed. Right where I want her.

The mind...the mind was the most powerful force for and against someone.

The Brotherhood was strong, a unit. a powerful force in their world for good. And so too were the females. Strong. A unit. A powerful force for good in their world.

Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life.

The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

Failure can be an incredibly motivating force.

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope...

To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.

The most difficult battle you ever fight is the battle to be unique in a world that will marshal its every force to keep you the same.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.

Any symptom can force you to go deeper into some area.

[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.