Force Quotes

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

Marcus Garvey

Law, without force, is impotent.

Blaise Pascal

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Blaise Pascal

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Blaise Pascal

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

Earl Nightingale

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

William James

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

John Ruskin

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning