Force Quotes

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara de Angelis

Love, Powerful, Enough

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein

Peace, Cannot, Kept

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Enemy, Friend

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

Government, Fire, Reason

Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein

Men, Morality, Attracts

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
Ray Charles

Music, Food, Heart

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand

History, Government, Human

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
Wayne Dyer

Peace, Mind, Others

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
Abraham Lincoln

Earth, Military, Drink

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain

Real, Except, Principles

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Mahatma Gandhi

Greatest, Mankind, Weapon

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

Power, Nothing, Air

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand

Government, Legal, Against

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas Jefferson

Parent, Principle, Despotism

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
Thomas Jefferson

Country, Spirit, Military

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde

Reason, Stand, Unfair

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Hate, Cannot, Rest

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
Mahatma Gandhi

Union, Welcome, Based

What you don't do can be a destructive force.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Men, Spiritual

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim Morrison

Parents, Person, Relatives

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Patrick Henry

Nothing, Jealous, Give

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
Barack Obama

Strong, Powerful, Cannot

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert Frost

Power, Control, Violence

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw

Power, Self, Belief

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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Calvin Coolidge

Democratic, Ideal

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Earl Nightingale

Job, Career, Remember

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
Martha Graham

Life, Time, Through

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
Max Planck

Mind, Matter, Behind

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
George Washington

Wish, Greater, Conduct

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