Quotes of: Forcible Keyword

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

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Coraline

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

Michael Moore

In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.

Richard Flanagan

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

John Locke

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

Robert Burton

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

Auberon Herbert

Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.

James McHenry

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Stephen Leacock

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

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

Thomas Browne

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

Carol Ann Duffy

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

Phyllis Schlafly

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

Timothy Thomas Fortune

What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.

Elaine Pagels

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

Claudio Hummes

Magneto: [to Rogue] I am so sorry... [forcibly transfers his powers to her]

X-Men

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.

Pervez Musharraf

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

Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

Thomas Carlyle