In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a 'third force' in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy.
I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.
someone asked: What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? and i said(object): i give up..!!!
An eerie feeling plagued the back of her mind, insisting that a supernatural force was within the room, or worse, within her!
The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.
Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.
A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.
A militarized police force facing down innocent protesters with sniper rifles and machine guns is totally unacceptable in America.
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force us to think in Therefore threatening ways?
It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So why would anyone expect them to be well paid?
Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.
I think you just have to cross your fingers that there's enough artists out there that keep producing interesting work, and eventually it will form a kind of wave that will force people to pay attention to it.
Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.
