#orc

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities. ↗

— Ernst Thalmann

#activities #against #arrested #been #both

Change before you're forced to change. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#change #forced #you

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#economically #feel #female #force #had

No one in this body wants to see terrorism and the rule of force prevail in Iraq. Some on the other side say otherwise, but I believe they know better. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#better #body #force #i #i believe

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force. ↗

— John Guare

#bodies #come #controlled #emotional #extraordinary

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#equal #flanks #forces #inevitable #long

Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines. ↗

— William Hamilton

#more #shines #shook #torch #truth

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance. ↗

— Paul Harris

#exercise #force #frequently #ignorance #intelligence

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#become #discovery #knowledge #our #quest

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness. ↗