#force

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

#creation #creative #force #give #recognize

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#forces #landscape #me #nature #visual

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

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I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. ↗

— Mike Tyson

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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily. ↗

— Harry Browne

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The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want. ↗

— Harry Browne

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A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#direction #dress #effect #end #follow

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#anyone #between #cross #evil #forces

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

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