F Quotes
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“Force is often used to enforce peace and an A bomb did bring world war 2 to a shuddering halt. The funniest people sometimes commit suicide and good souls often break a zillion hearts. That’s just who were are…sinners and saints in equal measure, our contradictions continually shaping our humanity and if we deny these paradoxes, we deny the existence of the very evolution that got us here.”
“Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.”
Source: Knowledge And Decisions
“Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.”
“Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one. It is itself an economic power.”
Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
“Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.”
Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist
“Force is the only language fools acquiesce to.”
“Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.”
“Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.”
Source: Paine and Jefferson on Liberty
“Force is the weapon of the weak.”
“Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion.”
“Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.”
“Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.”
“Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.”
Source: The Select Works of William Penn....
“Force of Life
Defining the intention
of our heart's desire
we discover
the Force of Life”
Source: Art of 4 Elements
“Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.”
“Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming, force tends increasingly to fall into the hands of those who are enemies of civilization.”
Source: Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935
“Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.”
“Force shites upon Reason's Back.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong,
between whose endless jar justice resides,
should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Then everything includes itself in power,
power into will, will into appetite;
and appetite, an universal wolf,
so doubly seconded with will and power, must make perforce an universal prey
and at last eat up himself.”
“Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of authority both by Church and State when Columbus sailed from Palos. The Wise Men traveled from the East toward the West under the guidance of the Star of Bethlehem. The spirit of the equality of all men before God and the law moved westward from Calvary with its revolutionary influence upon old institutions, to the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus carried it westward across the seas.”
Source: The columbian oration delivered at the dedication ceremonies of the World's fair at Chicago, Oct. 21, 1892
“Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian.”
Source: Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh
“force without finesse is mere mass”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Force without judgement falls on its own weight.”
“Force without reason falls of its own weight.”
“Force works on servile natures, not the free.”
Source: Works: Collated with all the former editions, and corrected with notes critical and explanatory
“Force your kids to pursue success and they shall be drowned into the abyss of characterlessness, but let them pursue excellence and they shall rise as glorious Gods.”
Source: Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
“Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.”
“Force yourself to find something beautiful in everything you do and you will only do beautiful things.”
“Force yourself to make progress.”
“Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.”
Source: The Literary Remains
“Force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do.”
“Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc. Don't say, don't write 'etc'. Make an effort to exhaust the subject, even if that seems grotesque, or pointless, or stupid. You still haven't looked at anything, you've merely picked out what you've long ago picked out.”
“Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]”
“Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.”
“FORCE, n. "Force is but might," the teacher said p/ "That definition's just."/ The boy said naught but throught instead,/ Remembering his pounded head:/ "Force is not might but must!"”
“Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.”
“Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil, and bruise itself.”
Source: Morals and Dogma
“Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic”
“Forced connections are the worst. Stop tryna force people to love you, to like you, to be in ya life etc. You just gon end up emotionally exhausted. If they not putting in the same effort as you, leave em alone.”
“Forced conversions are bad because the force is bad.
Conversions by inducement are good because inducements are good.”
“Forced federal registration of U.S. citizens based on religious identity is fascism, period. Nothing else to call it.”
“Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.”
Source: The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson
“Forced indoctrination exacts blind and ignorant obedience.”
“Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.”
“Forced Perspective by Stewart Stafford
She unscrewed my eyeballs with daggers,
as she had with her father before, no doubt.
Fractured the irises so I saw things her way,
jamming them back in so they wouldn’t pop out.
It took time before focus felt no longer strange,
as she asked if we were now lockstep viewers.
I told her I’d let her know the moment I did —
and suggested she take a walk in the sewers.
She took umbrage at that, giving me black eyes,
reverting at last to an optical divorce.
She tapped out — project fail —
and we drifted apart, mutually, of course.
© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.”
“Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.”
Source: The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization
“Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only furnishing is a small card table, and the only thing on the card table is a revolver loaded with flexible bullets.”
Source: Skeleton Crew: Stories
“Forced to govern as well as preach, Muhammad in Medina was a prophet with exceptional civil power, given that the umma was a polity as well as a congregation.”
Source: The Abrahamic Religions: A Very Short Introduction: A Very Short Introduction