Gennaro Gattuso Quotes

I don't think anyone likes to be pushed around.

You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

We will not go. The only way to get us there is to come in here with clubs and knock us on the head, and drag us out and take us down there dead.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

Move on over or we'll move on over you.

When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.

No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes- people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

All right," he said. "Since you ask so nicely." "I wasn't asking." "I'm aware of that. The sharp point in my back did make it clear.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Force is not a remedy.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.