Top 43 Forcible Quotes
#1. Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#2. Everything about his character and manners was forcible and violent; there never was any moderation; many a day did he fast, many a year did he refrain from wine; but when he did eat, it was voraciously; when he did drink wine, it was copiously. He could practise abstinence, but not temperance.
James Boswell
#3. We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.
Leland Stanford
#5. Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.
Isaac D'Israeli
#6. The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.
Horace Greeley
#7. A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail ... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
Charles Horton Cooley
#9. The forcible writer stands bodily behind his words with his experiences. He does not make books out of books, but he has been there in person.
Henry David Thoreau
#10. It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.
Lysander Spooner
#11. The Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things ... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
Karl Marx
#12. Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
Robert Cecil
#13. The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but on the forcible appropriation of the fruits of others' labor.
Ludwig Von Mises
#14. No human should be coerced by the state to bear the medical expense, or any other expense, for his fellow man. In other words, the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another is morally offensive.
Walter E. Williams
#15. On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly.
Neil Gaiman
#16. Since theft is the forcible removal of somebody else's property without consent, then taxation is always, universally and forever a moral evil. Taxation
Stefan Molyneux
#17. Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.
George Orwell
#18. Forcible intercourse with one individual is called as "Rape" & Raping thousands of individuals at a time is called as "Politics".
Srinivas Shenoy
#19. Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.
Plato
#20. For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.
Ira Berlin
#21. We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust him when he seems to be influencing us by his manner.
I. A. Richards
#22. Forcible sodomy and illegal entry, you put them both down and you get a jury confused. They figure it's two ways of saying the same thing.
Lawrence Block
#23. The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
John Locke
#24. The only way for the state to finance its operations is through the forcible expropriation of productive wealth from its citizens.
Daniel Alexander Brackins
#25. The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.
David Platt
#26. In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.
Richard Flanagan
#27. The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.
Leon Trotsky
#28. Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.
Alice Sebold
#29. Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible
Samuel Johnson
#30. Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
David Hume
#31. To be always giving, is to encourage a forcible taking when you refuse to give.
Publilius Syrus
#32. There is nothing so strong as the force of love; there is no love so forcible as the love of an affectionate mother to her natural child.
Elizabeth Grimston
#33. Don't wear green in your dressing room,' suggested Miss Spink.
'Or mention the Scottish play, added Miss Forcible.
Neil Gaiman
#34. It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.
Thomas Jefferson
#35. Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#36. A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock
#37. The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.
Charlotte Mason
#38. The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained.
Ayn Rand
#39. Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
Timothy Thomas Fortune
#40. Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more than chiaroscuro ... and the other, by making the colors very distinct and forcible ... but still, the presiding principle of both those manners is simplicity.
Joshua Reynolds
#41. What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.
Thomas Sowell
#42. Usually spending any amount of time with someone was a forcible reminder of how much I'd rather be alone.
Robyn Schneider
#43. Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
Thomas Browne
