Quotes with blunt-force

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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower 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
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Paracelsus Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
    Paracelsus
    Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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  • Agnes Smedley Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Benjamin Tucker To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Albert Camus To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin To me the ''female principle'' is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Campbell Brown Trump doesn't force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Ramsay Clark Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
    Ramsay Clark
     
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  • Bill Bixby TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
    Bill Bixby
    American actor, director and producer (1934 - 1993)
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  • Arthur Keith Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Albert J. Nock Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Leo Buscaglia We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • James Baldwin We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ray Bradbury We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Barbara Deming We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Barney Ross We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Laurence Sterne We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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