#force

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

#back #chilly #crammed #drawer #falls

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. ↗

— Mark Twain

#except #force #principles #real #well-fed

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#case #enforced #even #family #firmly

So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it! ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#books #consultation #democratic #determination #discuss

I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things. ↗

— Shania Twain

#dark #deep #experiencing #find #force

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#ask #forced #liberated #once #same

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

— Paul Twitchell

#creation #creative #force #give #recognize

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#dissent #especially #ever #forceful #including

And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#also #ask #attempting #cosmopolitan #dialogue

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. ↗

— John Berger

#close #disappear #enforced #helplessly #horizon