Mohammad Amir Quotes

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

You cannot make a person want to fight.

All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.

But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.

The American people cannot be driven to do anything that they do not want to do. The way to promote happiness is by moral suasion and not by force.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

I am always for change. But I believe in slow and inevitable change and not a forced one, all of a sudden.

You can't force fighters to fight.

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

Change can't be a compulsion. It has to happen organically.

I think people don't want to be persuaded. And people don't even like to do the persuading.

Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.

Agency presupposes choice.

Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It's you who decides.

No one lives like a robot. We all make choices from the moment we wake up in the morning.

However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.

You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.

You can't make anybody do anything, if they don't want to.

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.

Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values).

the touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk in the afternoon to the highest resolutions by which we bind ourselves for the future - is always that we know that we could also have left undone what we actually did.