Quotes about force
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Source: Statism and Anarchy (1873)
Source: "An Interview With Fr Gabriele Amorth - The Church's Leading Exorcist" (2001)
1790s, The Age of Reason, Part II (1795), The New Testament
Source: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Source: Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
Source: Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
Source: Blood Promise
Source: Waiting for the Barbarians
Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: The Condemned
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.”
La vie est la farce à mener par tous.
Une Saison en Enfer http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Season.html (A Season in Hell) (1873)
Source: Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
As quoted in The Life and Work of Martha Graham (1991) by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, <!-- de Mille precedes the Graham quotation with: "The greatest thing she ever said to me was in 1943 after the opening of Oklahoma!, when I suddenly had unexpected, flamboyant success for a work I thought was only fairly good, after years of neglect for work I thought was fine. I was bewildered and worried that my entire scale of values was untrustworthy. I talked to Martha. I remember the conversation well. It was in a Schrafft's restaurant over a soda. I confessed that I had a burning desire to be excellent, but no faith that I could be. Martha said to me, very quietly, ... " -->
Context: 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 of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.... No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
“Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.”
Source: Changes
“the force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it!”
“It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.”
“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.”
Source: Eleven Minutes
Source: A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
Source: The Summer Tree
Source: The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction
On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
Context: Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. Some Americans who preach non-violence abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others of inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them. Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
Source: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Source: Killing Rage: Ending Racism
“Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.”
Source: My Autobiography
“Our technology forces us to live mythically”
1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Context: I had also hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth concerning time in relation to the struggle for freedom. I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. He writes: "All Christians know that the colored people will receive equal rights eventually, but it is possible that you are in too great a religious hurry. It has taken Christianity almost two thousand years to accomplish what it has. The teachings of Christ take time to come to earth." Such an attitude stems from a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.”
Source: Starship Troopers
“No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
“Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.”
Source: Never Go Back
“Every thought of yours is a real thing – a force.”
Variant: Every idea from your thoughts is the real thing it's strength
Source: The Secret
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 7
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking
“Four: If you try to force yourself into my head, I will force myself into your pants.”
Source: Dreamfever
“Begging your pardon, sir…. One population can't make peace with another by force.”
Source: Son of a Witch
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 16 : The Scroll Marked IX, p. 93.
Context: I will act now. Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never has there been a parchment of law, however fair, which prevented one crime. Never has there been a scroll, even such as the one I hold, which earned so much as a penny or produced a single word of acclamation. Action alone is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, this scroll, my dreams, my plans, my goals, into a living force. Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success.
I will act now.
“You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.”
“You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.”
Source: Across the Great Barrier