Dan Levy Quotes

We look forward to the necessity of coercion …

I'm not trying to shove anything down anybody's throat.

I don't like dragging people.

I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.

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

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

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.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it; you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.

I don't do what I do willingly, but I have to do it.

My father and brother always forced me to work out, and I never liked doing it.

Nobody has ever wanted - they get forced to fight Yoel. Ask anybody.

You can't try to keep someone against their will, or it's difficult to get them to listen or have the right mentality.

The last thing I want to do is force tries to happen.

At the opposite pole from the gift is tribute - that is, a grant made out of fear and under threat. A threat is a statement of the form "you do something that I want or I will do something that you do not want.

The Qaddafis, father and sons, speak the grammar of dictatorship: threats and bribery.

Fighting is not something that I enjoy doing. It's something that I do that I feel that I have to do.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.

He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.

It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.