Force Quotes - Page 11

• Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Civilization, Defeat, Genocide

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• The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces.

  George Galloway

  Self, Iraq, People

  "Hitchens vs Galloway: The big debate", The Independent, September 16, 2005.

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• Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

  E. M. Forster

  Love Is, Doe, Affair

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

  Anthony Trollope

  Law, Water, Stones

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• In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.

  John Conyers

  Powerful, Government, World

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• I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs -- there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.

  Linus Pauling

  Military, Believe, Evil

  Linus Pauling, Barbara Marinacci (1995). “Linus Pauling in His Own Words: Selections From His Writings, Speeches and Interviews”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

  Glenn Gould

  Thinking, Law, Evil

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• There emanates from superlatives a destructive force.

  Elias Canetti

  Superlatives, Emanate, Destructive

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• I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive

  Sebastian Faulks

  Believe, Alive, May

  Sebastian Faulks (2010). “Birdsong”, p.53, Random House

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• It can be argued - and rightly - that Taiwan is not just another regional issue: after all, the Chinese regard it as part of China. But Taiwan is also a regional issue for three reasons. First, the overthrow or even the neutering of democracy in Taiwan, which is what Beijing effectively demands, would be a major setback for democracy in the region as a whole. Second, if the Chinese were able to get their way by force in Taiwan, they would undoubtedly be tempted to do the same in other disputes. And third, there is no lack of such disputes to provoke a quarrel.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Issues, Chinese, Democracy

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• If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces, like those of the UK. And they can acquire more advanced technology. Indeed, unless that happens soon the gulf between the European and US capabilities will yawn so wide that it will not be possible to share the same battlefield. Alas, I do not think that sharing battlefields with our American friends - but rather disputing global primacy with them - is what European defence plans are truly about.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Technology, Thinking, Wish

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• Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body, I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!

  Joan of Arc

  Soul, Tears, Say Anything

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• Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just "talents."

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Judging, Feelings

  "The portable Jack Kerouac".

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• If you're trying to force the story to be a straight up romance, it's going to be weird for you.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Romance, Trying, Stories

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• There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

  Gregory Benford

  Real, Math, Iron

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• The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

  Storm Constantine

  Compassion, Way, Oppression

  Storm Constantine (2004). “The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure: The First Book of the Wraeththu Histories”, p.454, Macmillan

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• Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

  Wilfred Owen

  Home, Never Fear, Behinds

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.398, Delphi Classics

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• There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.

  Diane Ravitch

  Running, Powerful, Common Purpose

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• I can't find a person without some link to the armed forces!

  Robyn Carr

  Links, Persons, I Can

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• My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal.

  Robyn Carr

  Husband, Military, Pride

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• Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability. In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with. There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue. The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin. And people die.

  Steven Erikson

  War, Fall, Self

  "Midnight Tides". Book by Steven Erikson, 2004.

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• Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development - to call for and expect much from men and women, and not to be disappointed and embittered if they fall short - to try to do good with people rather than to them - this is my religion on its human side. And if God exists, I think that he must be in the warm sun, in the kindly actions of the people we know and read of, in the beautiful things of art and nature, and in the closeness of friendships.

  Randolph Bourne

  Beautiful, Art, Believe

  "The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918".

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• The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the contrary, with the passing of the dominance of the State, the genuine life-enhancing forces of the nation will be liberated.

  Randolph Bourne

  Dominance, Genuine, States

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1919). “Untimely Papers”

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• The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Spiritual, Fear, Character

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really shows is that today`s empire is tomorrow`s ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Believe, Fighting, Exercise

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