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Force Quotes
"We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt."
170
"The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back."
109
"What was taken by force, can only be restored by force."
70
"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever."
66
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
57
"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity."
54
"You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish."
50
"Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think."
49
"Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital."
49
"Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it."
47
"How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law."
47
"Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers."
47
"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."
45
"Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts."
45
"The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went."
43
"Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?"
43
"However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation."
42
"Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so."
42
"During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village."
42
"If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force."
42
"To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him."
41
"Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed."
41
"We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary."
41
"Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities."
40
"The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning."
40
"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."
39
"If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun."
39
"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."
38
"The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia."
38
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