Force Quotes - Page 40

• For the first time a British force had met, held and decisively defeated a major Japanese attack, and followed this up by driving the enemy out of the strongest possible natural positions.

  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

  War, Enemy, World

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• Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

  Ralph Nader

  Struggle, Vacation, Justice

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• Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.

  William Alexander

  Mean, Journey, Volunteer

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• Mostly your love is passionate force. But when this passionate force turns itself to be a compassionate force under the guidance of compassionate intelligence, that is where one becomes brahm giani. One knows all, one sees all, one says all.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Passionate

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• The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

  Anaxagoras

  Stars, Science, Hot

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• You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Vietnam, Should

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• None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of 600,000 men between 1965 and 1968...Moreover, by about 1970 at least 80% of the day-to-day combat in South Vietnam was being carried on by regular NVA troops...Genuine black-pajama southern guerrillas had been decimated and amounted to no more than 20% of the communist fighting forces.

  Chalmers Johnson

  War, Loss, Fighting

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• It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to "resist aggression" is to destroy the potentialities of the aggressor to continually hit you...When you say, merely, "we are going to continue to fight aggression," that is not what the enemy is fighting for. The enemy is fighting for a very definite purpose-to destroy our forces.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Fighting, Enemy

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• It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us.

  Barack Obama

  Lying, Greatness, Trying

  "Obama turns controversy into jokes, lesson at commencement". www.cnn.com. May 14, 2009.

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• Man is basically an individual molecule of the God-Force.

  Stuart Wilde

  Spiritual, Men, Molecules

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• Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself.

  Wayne Dyer

  Knowing, Joy, Empowerment

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.219, Hay House, Inc

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• Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Bullying, Abuse

  Twitter post from Apr 10, 2014

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• Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

  John Henry Newman

  Responsibility, Guilt, Doe

  John Henry Newman (1850). “Lectures of certain difficulties felt by anglicans in submitting to the Catholic Church”, p.236

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• I lifted my right foot to step up into the bus and collided head on with an invisible force that entered my awareness like a silently exploding stick of dynamite blowing the door of my usual consciousness open and off its hinges, splitting me in two. In the gaping space that appeared, what I had previously called "me" was forcefully pushed out of its usual location inside me into a new location that was approximately a foot behind and to the left of my head. "I" was now behind my body, looking out at the world without using the body's eyes.

  Suzanne Segal

  Eye, Doors, Two

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• Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Opinion, Enviromental

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Don't correct me, you don't have any rights over me." "What kind of life is this? So I sit at home , entirely dependent on this man, and then it turns out his heart was never with me. How is it possible to force someone to love me?

  Katherine Boo

  Home, Heart, Men

  Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity”, p.75, Random House

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• The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence operations to wring the last few hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits from the global drug scam; then defeat will have to be declared. "Defeat" will mean, as it did in the case of the Vietnam War, that the media will correctly portray the true dimensions of the situation and the real players, and that public revulsion at the culpability, stupidity and venality of the Establishment's role will force a policy review.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, War, Mean

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• The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.

  Sigmund Freud

  Reality, Wish, Fulfillment

  Sigmund Freud (1973). “Abstracts of the Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Environmental historians . . . insist that we have got to go . . . down to the earth itself as an agent and presence in history. Here we will discover even more fundamental forces at work over time. And to appreciate those forces we must now and then get out of parliamentary chambers, out of birthing rooms and factories, get out of doors altogether, and ramble into fields, woods, and the open air. It is time we bought a good set of walking shoes, and we cannot avoid getting some mud on them.

  Donald Worster

  Air, Doors, Shoes

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• We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Psychedelic, Evolution

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• When you say "I am," the words that follow are summoning creation with a mighty force, because you are declaring it to be fact.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Facts, Creation

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• Expectation is a powerful attractive force.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Powerful, Law Of Attraction, Expectations

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• The police force were outstanding in their field. But all they did was stand in their field. They kept passengers on board while they played with a suspect package for two and three quarter hours. Extraordinary.

  Michael O'Leary

  Two, Police, Boards

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• Divine Providence has played a great part in our history. I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose. It is not given to us to know fully what that purpose is, but I think we may be sure of one thing, and that is that our country is intended to do all it can, in cooperating with other nations to help created peace and preserve peace in the world. It is given to defend the spiritual values-the moral code-against the vast forces of evil that seek to destroy them.

  Harry S. Truman

  Spiritual, Country, Thinking

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• There must be much more going on behind the scenes. The pivotal question is this: What is behind the deep-seated hatred that these atheists nurse against religion and against God? Let's face it, there is only one force that hates God's creation more than anything else - and that is Satan. Satan knows that God exists but wants no part of Him. It is Satan's ultimate goal to demolish all Christian elements in society and to damage the human image that was made in God's image. Could Satan be the real instigator of this aggressive form of atheism?

  Gerard Verschuuren

  Christian, Atheist, Real

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