Quotes about Force
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
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
the same quality of making other standards non-existent by ignoring them. This attribute was common to most of Lily's set: they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.
- Edith Wharton