Best 1214 quotes in «force quotes» category

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.

The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law.

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

The Kurds are the greatest fighting force and our strongest allies. They're Muslim.

The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One.

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

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

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

The living Word is able to destroy Satanic forces.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

The more I have read the Bible and studied the life of Jesus, the more I have become convinced that Christianity spreads best not through force but through fascination.

The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with equal clearness and equal force.

The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

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

The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

Theology is a part of our lives. It's unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.

The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.

The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

The overall effect of the rise of the industrial system is greatly to reduce the union as a social force. But it will not disappear or become entirely unimportant.

The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.

The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use it excessively.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

The power is that which generated and maintains the universe... the life-force, the stuff of creation. It is the very substance of existence itself.

The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

The polynomial xn−1 is a force of nature.

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

The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the commander of the armed forces, full stop.

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.

The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn by heart is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force.

The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.

There are definitely Dark Forces out there that none of us fully understand. People fear what they don't understand, and lash out against it

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

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.

There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There are many cases around the world in which the presence of UN peace-keeping forces has had a somewhat beneficial effect.