#force

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#been #behind #driving #driving force #europe

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#concerns #enforce #general #level #me

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#causes #civilization #concern #forces #healthy

I've heard attacks were made on coalition forces because of those. I apologize to the families of those who lost loved ones or were injured because of the photos. ↗

— Lynndie England

#attacks #because #coalition #coalition forces #families

From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to the preservation of religion as a vital force in America. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#anything #contribution #force #i #i do

Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#american #bringing #caution #committed #continue

History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#aggression #america #army #attack #demonstrates

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#attraction #beauty #curious #drawn #evil

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#forced #get #into #man #out

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#again #ancestors #ancestry #black #forced