Force Quotes

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

That educating philosopher of whom I dreamed would, I came to think, not only discover the central force, he would also know how to prevent its acting destructively on the other forces: his educational task would, it seemed to me, be to mould the whole man into a living solar and planetary system and to understand its higher laws of motion.

A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.

Socialism is the visionary younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.

Italy, wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

That small word Force, they make a barber's block, ready to put on meanings most strange and various, fit to shock pupils of Newton. The phrases of last century in this linger to play tricks, Vis viva and Vis Mortua and Vis Acceleratrix. Those long-nebbed words that to our text books still cling by their titles, and from them creep, as entozoa will, into our vitals. But see! Tait writes in lucid symbols clear one small equation; and Force becomes of Energy a mere Space-variation.

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

Until the bourgeoisie is completely vanquished, until its wealth has been confiscated, the proletariat must without fail possess a military force, it must without fail have its "proletarian guard," with the aid of which it will repel the counter-revolutionary attacks of the dying bourgeoisie, exactly as the Paris proletariat did during the Commune.

Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.

Learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.

God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

I believe in your support and the invincible force rooted in the love for our Fatherland.

The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

I feel the force of her amiable beauties in the recollection of a thousand tender passages that I coud wish to obliterate, till I am bid to revive them. - but experience alas! sadly reminds me how Impossible this is. - and evinces an Opinion which I have long entertaind, that there is a Destiny, which has the Sovereign controul of our Actions - not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious.