Forced Choice Quotes

You are either with us or against us…

After meditation and prayer ... I conclude with melancholy that God lays upon me the revolting duty of voting for the numbskull, [Warren] Gamaliel [Harding], on the first Tuesday in November.

I don't like having to be pushed into a box.

War is never a choice between a good choice and a bad choice. It is a choice between a bad choice and a worse choice.

Anything that has only two choices is wrong.

A war was coming either way. Now all I had to do was choose my opponent

The last thing you want is to have to make a decision for political purposes.

Emigrate or Degenerate.

Everybody was pressuring me to play basketball, so I was like, 'OK, I'll do it.'

Richard Nixon said it best. It makes no difference whether they hold your nose or whether they go would through a wall to vote for you. It counts the same with the X.

The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.

I entered the film industry because my family forced me into it.

I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.

At some point in the idea process, I simply wear myself down and force myself to choose. But here's the thing: Once I do choose, suddenly all the other possibilities wither and die, and thus I never have a backlog of well-formed ideas waiting for me when my latest book gets finished.

Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.

The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.

I dislike both of [candidates] but there's obviously no choice in the election - if you're concerned about the future of anything, you need to vote for Hillary Clinton.

A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory.

My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.

But I love you, “ he whispered. “Doesn't that matter?” “Of course it matters. So much. Can't you see? That only makes it more… necessary.” His eyes flashed open. “Is it so unbearable to have me love you? Is that it? I can keep my mouth shut, Wanda. I won't say it again. You can be with Jared, if that's what you want. Just stay.

Yes or No, Mr Hughes?

I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

The Congress having done me the honor of electing me brigadier-general in their service, is an event which must put an end, for a while, perhaps forever, to the quiet scheme of life I had prescribed for myself; for, though entirely unexpected and undesired by me, the will of an oppressed people, compelled to choose between liberty and slavery, must be obeyed.