Quotes with forced

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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Al Stewart Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.
    Al Stewart
    Scottish singer-songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Arthur Keith Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • W. C. Fields Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Charles III Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
    Charles III
    King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (1948 - )
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  • Bob Black Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.
    The Abolition of Work and Other Essays (1986)
    Bob Black
    American author and anarchist (1951 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro President Obama's respect for the Constitution does not extend to freedom of religion - his administration has forced religious businessowners to pay for insurance plans that cover activities in violation of religious precepts.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see?
    Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be
    And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest
    Stranded in the park and forced to confess
    To hiding on the Backstreets.
    Born To Run (1975) Backstreets
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Auberon Herbert The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Caitlin Moran The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats 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.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Barry Lam The market is so competitive. There are so many products that are similar. So we are forced to invest in innovative research in new products that are one or two years ahead of the market.
    Barry Lam
    Taiwanese billionaire businessman (1949 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bryce Courtenay The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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