“Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.” YearsWarUseForceMilitaryYears AgoVoteNineChecksLengthBlankSeptemberLoneNine YearsMilitary ForceBlank Check Author:Barbara Lee
“Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.” YearsMayWholeTodayForceHalfTechnologyEconomicTenYears AgoInvestmentGapsDefenceAlliancesExpendituresHamper Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen
“Hitler can't walk over me as he might have done a year ago; I've seen to that. Don't forget that I have three million men, with every key position in the hands of my own people, Hitler knows that I have friends in the Reichswehr, you know! If Hitler is reasonable I shall settle the matter quietly; if he isn't I must be prepared to use force - not for my sake but for the sake of our revolution.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenYearsMatterDoneUseHandsMightThreeForceMy OwnWalksForgetMillionsPositionRevolutionKeysYears AgoPreparedSakeSettlingReasonableBe Prepared Author:Ernst Rohm
“History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the Iron Curtain that divided Germany and Europe, and indeed the world, into two blocs.” PeopleWorldYearsLongTwoForceWallEuropeYears AgoOvercomingMovedEastGermanyIronDividedYearningDictatorEasternCurtainsUnleashedEastern EuropeEast GermanyIron Curtain Author:Angela Merkel
“Fortunately, there are old terrors and powers that religion no longer can exercise so effectively as it did only a few score years ago. But the atmosphere and the attitude of bigotry remain. If religion cannot ordinarily invoke the armed force of law to punish heretics, it still plays upon the psychology of fear and predominantly its influence is to frighten men and distort their views and poison every process of their reasoning.” IfsMenYearsStillsPlayLawForceProcessViewsAttitudePsychologyAtheismInfluenceExerciseYears AgoTerrorAtmospherePoisonReasoningScoreBigotryHereticArmed ForcesInvoke Author:E. Haldeman-Julius
“Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the tyranny of arrogant clergy and the censorship of pious bureaucrats. They boldly proclaimed that the state must be free from religious coercion and that religion must be free from state control. All individuals have the right to pursue the dictates of their own conscience. All citizens even have the right not to be religious at all.” YearsChildrenTwoIdeasStatesIndividualForceReligiousAtheismCitizensEnlightenmentHundredConscienceYears AgoRoseTyrannyPursueCensorshipArrogantCoercionPiousBureaucratsClergy Author:Sherwin Wine
“The gun-control crusade today is like the Prohibition crusade 100 years ago. It is a shared zealotry that binds the self-righteous know-it-alls in a warm fellowship of those who see themselves as fighting on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. It is a lofty role that they are not about to give up for anything so mundane as facts - or even the lives of other people.” PeopleKnowsGivingYearsSelfFactsTodayFightingEvilForceSidesRolesGiving UpGunAngelYears AgoWarmRighteousGun ControlFellowshipMundaneLoftyProhibitionLives Of OthersCrusadesSelf RighteousKnow It AllFighting OnZealotry Author:Thomas Sowell
“if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago. ... you must write to the human heart, the great consciousness that all humanity goes to make up. Otherwise what might be strength in a writer is only crudeness, and what might be insight is only observation; sentimemnt falls to sentimentality - you can write about life, but never write life itself.” IfsWritingYearsHumansHeartMightHumanityFallForcePerfectConsciousnessFiveQuietYears AgoInsightObservationFive YearsMatureHuman HeartBetter Than YouSentimentality Author:Sarah Orne Jewett
“The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress. The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.” YearsTwoBookWarBigsForceProgressRevolutionHundredConsequenceYears AgoLaborPaidFeministLiberationRisingInflationExclusiveStraightforwardHouseworkIndustrial RevolutionDomesticityLabor ForceEnrollment Author:Barbara Bergmann
“I really gave up being passionate about politics 10, 15, 20 years ago, because I think finally that there were forces in the country that are larger than politics itself. And so I find it a fascinating game, this wonderful stuff goes on in terms of watching the game. But If you get to down it, look, I`m going to root for someone, I`ll root at a football game, not for politicians.” IfsThinkingYearsLooksCountryGamesForceStuffTermWonderfulFootballGoes OnPoliticianYears AgoRootsPassionateFascinatingGave UpFootball Game Author:Norman Mailer
“Yes, I am optimistic about the environment. If you assume business is exerting the most negative influence on the environment and also has the possibility to impact it positively, there are a bunch of forces that are impacting business that are fundamentally different from the situation 3 or 4 years ago.” IfsYearsDifferentForceBusinessSituationEnvironmentInfluencePossibilityNegativeYears AgoImpactAssumingBunchOptimisticPositivelyNegative Influence Author:Jeffrey Hollender
“I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed Point Break and Strange Days. I hate labels of any kind. Just because you are a woman you can't do this or that? Twenty years ago women entering the work force was enough of a shock. People just like the predictable; they feel safe with it. You know, it's such a bore” PeopleKnowsFeelsYearsLooksKindEnoughFilmHateForceBreakStrangeDramaSafeYears AgoI HateTwentiesLabelsShockMakersBoresStereotypeEnteringFamily DramaPredictablePoint BreakStrange Days Author:Deepa Mehta
“If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.” IfsWritingYearsForcePerfectFiveQuietYears AgoFive YearsMatureBetter Than You Book:Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912 Source: Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912
“Few years ago I did a movie, Good Kill, about drone pilots and for four or five months I'm obsessed with the Air Force.” YearsForceFiveFourAirMonthsYears AgoObsessedPilotsAir ForceDrones Author:Ethan Hawke
“I think that things were getting really very bad a couple of years ago, and there's been a very significant change in response to that on the part of the security forces and the government, but particularly the army. And you see Pakistan actually fighting terrorism and terrorists in a much more wholehearted way than had been occurring previously. It's not anywhere close to over yet, but you've seen a big change in the antiterrorism campaign here.” ThinkingWayYearsBigsGovernmentFightingForceSecurityCoupleYears AgoArmyResponseTerrorismCampaignsTerroristSignificantPakistanBig ChangesSignificant ChangeSecurity ForcesFighting Terrorism Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me and my people closer to reality," and reality is almost a shrine before which he sits. Exile brings us up against the wall and forces us to rise to the challenge of the moment.” PeopleYearsWellsSaidMomentsRealityRememberForceChallengesWallYears AgoExileShrinesLamaDalai Author:Pico Iyer
“That's been lost. It's a huge problem. What you have is you have the major institutions of the world all wanting to deleverage. They want to take down their assets and liabilities. What seemed so easy to borrow against a year ago now looks like rat poison to them. So they're trying to deleverage. There is only one institution in the world that can leverage up in a way that's all a countervailing force to that, and that's the United States Treasury.” WorldWayWantTryingYearsLooksStatesProblemLostForceEasyUnitedUnited StatesHugeMajorsYears AgoInstitutionsPoisonAssetsRatsTreasuryLiabilityAssets And Liabilities Author:Warren Buffett
“It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes that "The architects of power in the United States must create a force that can be felt but not seen."” YearsStatesPoliticalForceFeltUnitedUnited StatesStandardsYears AgoScientistFamiliarArchitectAcademicMainstreamAmerican PoliticsScholarshipProminent Author:Noam Chomsky
“What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago, the secretary-general of NATO made a formal statement explaining the purpose of NATO in the post-Cold War world is to control global energy systems, pipelines, and sea lanes. That means it's a global system and of course he didn't say it, it's an intervention force under US command, as we've seen in case after case. So that's NATO.” WorldYearsWellsMeanMadeWarPurposeCoursesEnergyForceAnswersCasesSeaColdCoupleYears AgoStatementsCommandPostsOfficialsSecretaryCold WarFormalInterventionExplainingLanesNatoPipeline Author:Noam Chomsky
“I went to Brazil, and you get on the ground and you see it, and you could tell the government was in trouble two years ago. This was just going to sweep the government aside, and it was a force you could feel. Brexit, the same thing.” FeelsYearsTwoGovernmentForceTroubleYears AgoTwo YearsBrazilTwo Years Ago Author:Ken Moelis
“If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.” IfsYearsTwoWarCertainFightingForceFiveBloodMilitaryVictoryYears AgoFlowDestructionTwentiesFranceGermanyFive YearsTwenty FiveBarbarism Author:Edouard Daladier