FORCE

Related Subjects: Energy, Impulse, Might, Necessity, Power, Strength, Violence, War

1. Force is no remedy.—JOHN BRIGHT, On the Irish Troubles

2. What force cannot effect, fraud shall devise.—RICHARD CRASHAW, Sospetto d'Herode
   

3. Force is of brutes.—DRYDEN, Palamon and Arcite
   

4. We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.—EMERSON, Journal
   

5. What about force, though? . . . Doesn't all society rest on force? If a government can't count upon the police and the army, how can it hope to rule? And if an individual gets knocked on the head or sent to a labor camp, of what significance are his opinions?—E. M. FORSTER, I Believe
   

6. Force works on servile natures, not the free.—BEN JONSON, Every Man in His Humour
   

7. Who overcomes
   By force bath overcome but half his foe.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

8. Every body perseveres in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it is compelled to change that state by impressed forces.—SIR ISAAC NEWTON, First Law of Motion
   

9. Force without forecast is of little avail.—Proverb
   

10. Men must reap the things they sow,
    Force from force must ever flow.—SHELLEY, Lines Written Among the
    Euganean Hills
    

11. Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into
    a horizontal line which is accurately straight.—WILLIAM WHEWELL, Elementary Treatise on Mechanics. (A celebrated instance of accidental versification)