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Forcing Quotes

On pressure, persuasion, and difficult decisions

Forcing something to happen, whether a belief, a policy, or a personal decision, always carries tension. These quotes look at that pressure from several angles, including public life, echoing themes in our beliefs quotes collection.

Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026

Future
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Nov 07, 2020

If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

Quotes by Adam Hasner

Nov 07, 2020

Forcing states to take refugees doesn't take Europe any further.

Quotes by Sebastian Kurz

Nov 07, 2020

All this terminology of rankings - forcing rankings along some distribution curve or whatever - we're done with that.

Quotes by Pierre Nanterme

Not Interested
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.

Quotes by Nancy Pickard

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

It seems like everybody is forcing me to run for president.

Quotes by Ko Wen-je

Heartbeat
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Nov 07, 2020

If he'd been negotiating Obamacare, Lincoln would have made the infamous 'Cornhusker Kickback' deal - $100 million in Medicaid funds for Nebraska to secure a Senator's vote - in a heartbeat, even if the press howled as it did when Barack Obama agreed to it, forcing its cancellation.

Quotes by Joe Klein

Out
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Nov 07, 2020

Lots of times I was out through forcing the game.

Quotes by Frank Woolley

Nov 07, 2020

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Nowhere
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Nov 07, 2020

Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.

Quotes by Arthur Keith

From debates over government policy to the pressure of public expectation, these quotes treat forcing as a neutral idea about persuasion, not a political endorsement.

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