Quotes with force

Quotes 221 till 240 of 300.

  • Nadine Gordimer The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Bill Moyers The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly veneration of wealth are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.
    Moyers on Democracy
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Thomas Hobbes The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions.
    Leviathan (1651) XV
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Boris Yeltsin The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Camille Paglia The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Elizabeth Drew The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ''mangled mind'' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • Adam C. Engst The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
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  • Edmund Burke The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Betty Williams The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Alan Cohen The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bill Gates The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • William Hazlitt There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • C. M. Ward There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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  • Leo Buscaglia There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Billy Graham There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Anne Sophie Swetchine There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
    Anne Sophie Swetchine
    Russian writer (1782 - 1857)
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  • William James There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Arnold Bennett There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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