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You can say to yourself, "Yes, I see how such a thing may be." But when you look inward and confront the raw force of your own life unshielded, you see your peril. You see that this could overwhelm you. The greatest peril to the Giver is the force that takes. The greatest peril to the Taker is the force that gives. It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.
— Frank Herbert
These humans are only of flesh, of mud, and I suggest there is one force stronger than their zeal for God: their own self-righteousness! We will make them proud, pure in their own eyes, vindictive, unjust judges over each other, and stir up such a noise among them that the simplest prayer will not be uttered!
— Frank Peretti
Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Strength can always be used to destroy as well as create
— Madeleine L'Engle
Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.
— Alexander Hamilton
Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.
— Ayn Rand
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.
— Thomas Jefferson
We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.
— George W. Bush
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The week ahead is already programmed for fabulousness. Pray that your thinking be aligned with the force that makes it so.
— Marianne Williamson
Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.
— Walt Whitman