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“The death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt to imagine the moment. How did they look at the instant the question invaded them, flooding the angelic consciousness, taking hold with terrifying force? The question was, "What are angels?" New to questioning, unaccustomed to terror, unskilled in aloneness, the angels (we assume) fell into despair.”

Looks Moments Left Force Consciousness Imagine Position Strange Despair Angel Fundamentals Assuming Terror Instant Questioning Angelic Flooding

Book:Sixty stories

Source: Sixty stories

“Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms. Let us accept that high responsibility not as a burden, but gladly gladly because the chance to build such a peace is the noblest endeavor in which a nation can engage.”

World Ideas Different Strong Force Nations Peace Chance Responsibility Accepting Influence Arms Safe Weak Structure Burden Live By Endeavor

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the form of Bismarckian or Hitlerian military force, has at last vanquished the victor by drawing Britain into a Zollverein which comprises Western Europe and aspires to comprise the Mediterranean as well. If the ghosts of the Hohenzollerns come back to haunt this planet, they must find a lot to laugh at.”

Ifs Wells Lasts Form Force Laughing Military Planets Europe Unions Western Drawing Ghost Conquer Irony Britain Customs Aspire Military Force Western Europe

Author:Enoch Powell

“A covenant not to defend myself from force by force is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself. For the right men have by Nature to protect themselves, when none else can protect them, can by no Covenant be relinquished. ... [The right] to defend ourselves [is the] summe of the Right of Nature.”

Men Force Protect Lays Void Covenant Transfers Right Man

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“A Covenant not to defend my selfe from force, by force, is always voyd.”

Force Covenant

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism.”

People Thinking Young Force Conservative Active Socialism Eras

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“This country needs room to grow and expand. In all my own newspapers I read frightful tales of the shameful atrocities being perpetrated on our Democratic minorities in Maine and Vermont. My patience is almost at an end, and if provoked much further I will place both countries under American protection, even if I have to send in my tourists to start trouble so I'll have to send in a force to restore order.”

Ifs Needs Ends Country Order Force Grows My Own Rooms Trouble Democratic Protection Newspapers Tales Minorities Tourists Shameful Atrocities Maine Provoked Vermont

Author:Gracie Allen

“ISIS is a formidable foe, but the counter forces to it have only just begun and if these forces, the Iraqi army, the Kurdish Peshmerga, American air power, the Syrian Free Army, work in a coordinated fashion, it will start losing ground. Also, please keep in mind that ISIS does not actually hold as much ground as the many maps flashed on television keep showing. Large parts of those territories that ISIS supposedly controls are vacant desert.”

Ifs Mind Doe Force Air Fashion Television Please Losing Army Desert Maps Territory Foe Isis Formidable Vacant Air Power Kurdish

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“Intriguingly, in poll after poll, when Americans are asked what public institutions they most respect, three bodies are always at the top of their list: the Supreme Court, the armed forces, and the Federal Reserve System. All three have one thing in common: they are insulated from the public pressures and operate undemocratically. It would seem that Americans admire these institutions, precisely because they lead rather than follow.”

Body Seems Three Force Common One Thing Pressure Institutions Court Lists Supreme Admire Reserves Supreme Court Polls Federal Reserve Armed Forces

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.”

World States Reality America Force Levels United United States Highest Around The World Dirty Accountability Scandal Vivid Wrongdoing Linen

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!”

Force Water Mathematics Raises Vanity Wheels Fifty Yards Geometry Mills Reservoirs Drop Of Water Euler

Author:Frederick The Great

“There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to make us sensible of its force, that was at first requisite for its invention. When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning; and 'tis difficult for us to retain even that conviction, which we had attain'd with difficulty.”

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

“But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.”

Ifs Character Force Capitalism Built Productions Productive Serving Unnecessary

Book:Marx and science

Source: Marx and science

“The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.”

Book Care Force Learning Kings Equal Argument Horse Oxford Cambridge Cambridge University

Author:William Browne

“The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.”

World Long Force Peace Risk Negative Our World Indivisible

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.”

“The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a war in which a band of rich nations, armed with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, rounded on a poor nation, falsely accused it of having nuclear weapons, used the United Nations to force it to disarm, then invaded it, occupied it, and are now in the process of selling it.”

Source: Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire

“The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.”

Moments Action Strong Force Security Weak Surprise Devoted Providing Troops Reserves Distribution Defence

Book:The Principles of War

Source: The Principles of War

“What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it.”

Men Mind Long Eye Lying Force Can Do Land One Day Regions Unseen Mushrooms Pavement Asphalt

Author:William Least Heat-Moon

“The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.”

Source: The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture

“What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently in opposition to its own meaning; by whether the individual words are loaded at the expense of the sentence, its propositional force, and the thought content.”

Individual Force Written Determined Sentences Opposition Expenses Loaded Jargon Intonation

Book:Adorno

Source: Adorno

“Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.”

Faces Force Arms Threat Credible

Book:Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

“The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes.”

Thinking Wells Said Energy Force Creativity Creative Written Capitalism Praise Enormous Destructive Admiration Communist Innovative Manifestos Communist Manifesto Engels

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.”

Force Elements Criminals Comparison Saddam Insulted Underworld Depraved Rouge Khmer Rouge Vietcong

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“God reveals Himself to a devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions: the attraction of worldly possessions for the worldly man, the child's attraction for its mother, and the husband's attraction for the chaste wife. If one feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions, then through it one can attain Him.”

Ifs Men Feels Children Mother Three Force Wife Husband Possession Attraction Worldly Chaste Devotee Worldly Possessions

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.”

Heart Young Force Easy Break Bent Bamboo Young At Heart

Author:Ramakrishna

“I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.”

Force Stuff Neighbor Faster Productive Neurotic

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.”

Said Soul Body Force Conditions Depends Property

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“Christ is known only by them that receive Him into their love, their faith, their deep want; known only as He is enshrined within, felt as a Divine force, breathed in the inspirations of the secret life.”

Want Inspiration Force Felt Christ Secret Known Divine Secret Life

Author:Horace Bushnell

“The daimonic refers to the power of nature rather than the superego, and is beyond good and evil. Nor is it man's 'recall to himself' as Heidegger and later Fromm have argued, for its source lies in those realms where the self is rooted in natural forces which go beyond the self and are felt as the grasp of fate upon us. The daimonic arises from the ground of being rather than the self as such.”

Men Self Lying Evil Force Felt Natural Fate Source Arise Realms Good And Evil Rooted Recalls Heidegger Power Of Nature Beyond Good And Evil Fromm Superego

Book:Love and will

Source: Love and will

“The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want a beauty on the surface of life that is from the central force of principle within, as the beauty on the cheek of health is from the central force at the heart.”

Want Heart Force Principles Mere Surface Cheeks Brutes

Book:Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

Source: Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

“There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors.”

Ifs Should Made Language Force Influence Reform Ancestor Spelling

Book:A collection of essays and fugitiv writings 1790

Source: A collection of essays and fugitiv writings 1790

“Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified, but any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right.”

Wells Persons States Certain Force Rights Function Protection Conclusion Contracts Fraud Enforcement Justified Theft Unjustified

Author:Robert Nozick

“In a free system any large, popular, revolutionary movement should be able to bring about its ends by such a voluntary process. As more and more people see how it works more and more will wish to participate in or support it. And so it will grow, without being necessary to force everyone or a majority or anyone into the pattern.”

People Should Ends Able Force Wish Grows Process Support Movement Majority Patterns Revolutionary

Book:Anarchy, state, and utopia

Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia

“It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature.We were appalled by what we saw.”

Men World Firsts War Force Effort Saws First Time War Of The Worlds Second World War Forces Of Nature

Author:Vannevar Bush

“On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.”

War Force Nations Creation Depends Industry Bears Disease Our Future Strengthening Armed Forces

Book:Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President

Source: Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President

“So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained our forward progress, and we have made our labor movement something to be respected and accorded a place in the councils of the Republic. Where we have blundered into trying to force a policy or decision, even though wise and right, we have impeded if not interrupted the realization of our own aims.”

Source: The American Federationist

“What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and in the country.”

Country Language Force Streets Greece Impressive Dictionary

Author:Peter Levi

“For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.”

Men Force Bears Genius Structure Wit Vain Proportion

Book:Essays on the powers of the human mind: An essay on quantity. An analysis of Aristotl's logic

Source: Essays on the powers of the human mind: An essay on quantity. An analysis of Aristotl's logic

“I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action.”

Use Feelings Action Force Gains Painter

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.”

People Action Force Virtuous Alas Degenerates

Author:Vittorio Alfieri

“To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or man become unconquerable cosmic forces.”

Men Mean Made Force Hell Crime Hatred Defeat Cosmic Resignation Unconquerable Hatred And Love Unconquerable Will

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society