“I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“needing to be somewhere (now). In fact, he still felt this compulsion. It gnawed stubbornly at” — Brian Harmon Copy Share Image
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion. — Mike Cernovich Copy Share Image
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them. — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
“But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Tis only to consult our own hearts to be convinced that nations like individuals revolt at the idea of being guided by… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“HOLLOW-TOOTH SYNDROME: Compulsion to torture oneself mentally, based on the fact that nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like "I'm happy! I… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of… — James Jones Copy Share Image
The wish to be super-strong is a healthy wish, a vital, compelling, power-producing desire. The more the Superman-Wonder Woman picture stories build… — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Compulsion – nonconsensual education – requires violence; it requires complete control over what students put into their brain, the people they are… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“...there are many who want it but for whom the train of compulsion doesn't seem to stop. They never get that moment,… — Jowita Bydlowska Copy Share Image
Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Your desintation is a life of meaning, fulfillment, creativity and joy. A life free of fears, obsessions, compulsions, and addictions, without the… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.” — Martina Boone Copy Share Image
Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion. — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image