Forces

Famous quotes containing the word forces:

    “Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.”
    —Angela Davis (b. 1944)

    “When we are in love, the sentiment is too great to be contained whole within us; it radiates out to our beloved, finds in her a surface which stops it, forces it to return to its point of departure, and it is this rebound of our own tenderness which we call the other’s affection and which charms us more than when it first went out because we do not see that it comes from us.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    “Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.”
    —Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)