Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
Thomas Hobbes

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
Maurice Strong

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
James M. Barrie

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
Lord Acton

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
Lord Acton

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
John Milton

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara de Angelis

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
Paul Cezanne

I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.
Henry Hudson

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
Peter Marshall

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.
Johnny Cash

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

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?
Lauryn Hill

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
Alexandre Dumas

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
John Stuart Mill

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Simone Weil

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
Simone Weil

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.
Morgan Freeman