Quotes 201 till 220 of 310.
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The day for progress by force has passed; it will be progress by ideas or not at all.
Source: The Great Illusion (1910) -
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
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The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached.
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The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
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The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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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.
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The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
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The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.
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The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
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The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
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The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.
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The key that unlocks energy is ''Desire.'' It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
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The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.
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The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
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The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.
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The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.
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