A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an…

It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.

— Sugata Mitra

Barack is at a level where he can't - no matter how much he wants to or how much we want him to -…

— Lupe Fiasco

When I was a young man, I used to dream maybe someday I could be an alderman. Instead of that I became an attorney…

— Walter F. Mondale

I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Kat was fully aware that she should intervene and stop little Allen Alderman from using a sparkly wand as a scoop to eat red…

— R.M. Sorace

A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone.

— Andrew H Malcolm

“When a bill was put before the state legislature in Jefferson City that would have prohibited anyone who owned a saloon from holding elective…

— David McCullough

When we first started, me and Rowan hated each other. I don't know what it was. We just didn't get along. We were forced…

— Luke Harper

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

— Harry Browne

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to…

— Anonymous

When you're forced to go to church all the time, the last thing you want to do is go to church.

— Tabitha Brown

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.

— Gero Miesenbock

We want women to have options and not be forced into somebody else's idea of what their beauty needs ought to be.

— Richelieu Dennis

“It all had to be squeezed and squeezed again, to provide a thrill, to provide enjoyment. What did people mean, with their simply determined…

— D.H. Lawrence

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

— Laura Marling