Quotes about Force
We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.
— Audre Lorde
But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief that sensation is enough.
— Audre Lorde
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.
— Ayn Rand
I like cigarettes, Miss Taggart. I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke a cigarette thinking. I wonder what great things have come from those hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind - and it is only proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.
— Ayn Rand
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
— Ayn Rand
If you believe that you have the right to force me—use your guns openly. I will not help you to disguise the nature of your action.
— Ayn Rand
It also meant that whenever a body is not acted on by any force, it will keep on moving in a straight line at the same speed.
— Stephen Hawking
In 1956 two American physicists, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, suggested that the weak force does not in fact obey the symmetry P.
— Stephen Hawking
Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.
— Oscar Romero
True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.
— Dorothy Day
Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
But Wilberforce's exquisite voice was a force of nature itself, and as rude and harsh as the wind and rain were, Wilberforce's voice was glorious and beautiful.
— Eric Metaxas