Force Quotes - Page 3

• Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Two, People, Groups

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• Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

  John Milton

  Powerful, Military, War

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 648

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• Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that
  tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Men, Tyrants

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Air, Terrific

  Winston S. Churchill (2010). “The Gathering Storm: The Second World War”, p.562, RosettaBooks

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• Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

  Leon Trotsky

  Believe, Gravity, Gravitation

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• Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

  Simone Weil

  Ideas, Fragility, Stories

  "Three Letters on History: Thophile de Viau" (written 1938 - 1939)

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• Love is the strongest force in the world.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Love Is, World, Hiding Place

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.60, Chosen Books

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• Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.

  Leon Trotsky

  Agreement

  What Next? (1932) ch. 14

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• The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force.

  David Prowse

  Obi Wan Kenobi, Sith, Next

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• Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Wisdom, Love Is, Greatness

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• Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Power, Elephants, Issues

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• Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

  William Allen White

  Men, World, Wrecks

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• I believe in a higher force that is within me.

  Tobey Maguire

  Believe, Higher, I Believe

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• Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

  Havelock Ellis

  Mean, Men, Charm

  Havelock Ellis (1912). “The Task of Social Hygiene”

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• It would be a stultification of the responsibility which the course of constitutional history has cast upon this Court to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Men, Order, Police

  "Rochin v. California, 342 U.S. 165". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. January 2, 1952.

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• Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Power, Known

  Alfred Thayer Mahan (1912). “Armaments and Arbitration, Or, The Place of Force in the International Relations of States”, p.105, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Police, Protection, Participation

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.184, University of Georgia Press

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• After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.

  Ivor Novello

  War, Air, Pilots

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• I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

  Mel Tillis

  Air, Okinawa, Passed Away

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• One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Enemy

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• I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.

  Louis Bonaparte

  Country, Law, Enemy

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• In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear evidence that airpower has evolved into a force in war co-equal with land and sea power, decisive in its own right and worthy of the faith of its prophets.

  Carl Andrew Spaatz

  Military, War, Home

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• The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age.

  Dylan Thomas

  Flower, Color, Age

  "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" l. 1 (1934)

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• The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever.

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Flower, Roots

  "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" l. 1 (1934)

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