"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires."

Robert Collier, American Publisher

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"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."

Holly Near, American Musician

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"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

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"Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts."

William Penn, English Leader

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"Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it."

William Shatner, Canadian Actor

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"There is great force hidden in a gentle command."

George Herbert, British Poet

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"There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

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"Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live."

Ray Brown, American Musician

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"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach."

Felix Frankfurter, American Judge

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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

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"One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires."

"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."

"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."

"Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts."

"Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it."

"There is great force hidden in a gentle command."

"There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live."

"Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed."

"Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live."

"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach."

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"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."

"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."

"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."