The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
The way you stop a takedown in wrestling is to meet force with force. You don't try to go away.
When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.
The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.
I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle.
Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.
I feel like everyone, at least all teenagers these days, wears Air Force 1s or Converse. But I would much rather have Air Force 1s over Converse for sure. I think Air Force 1s are cooler and they're more comfortable.
With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
Feeling unworthy is like putting a huge obstacle into the God force, into the life force which is everywhere.
The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.
When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
...What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.
If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms.
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.
[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.
You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.
The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
We need to transform our military forces by focusing on force posture, not force structure.
A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.
Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.
The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul.
A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.
Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.
If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.
Four: If you try to force yourself into my head, I will force myself into your pants.
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.
Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.
America is now the dominant force and the only countervailing force is Europe.
A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.
In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force.
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.
There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed. ... These things are so ancient within us that they're ground into each separate cell of our bodies... It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.
Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.
The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.
The life-force may be the least understood force on earth.
This site uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience.
More info...