Compulsion Quotes
Compulsion Quote of the day
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.
The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room.
It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.
When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.
The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot that fits nobody.
Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.
The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.
When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.
There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion."
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs
The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to “do well” in the world instead of living well.
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.
Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.
It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing.
