Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the… — Plato Copy Share Image
The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Women, Elena believed, appealed to men in direct proportion to their vacuousness. The male had an overwhelming compulsion to teach, to mold… — Joyce Haber Copy Share Image
When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“I started writing to get women, or rather a particular woman, and I continue writing because it’s now a compulsion.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's even hard to tell the difference between a tic and a compulsion. But while tics stem from an urge in… — Tim Howard Copy Share Image
I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“But the other half of my motivation came from farther back in my brain, in the curious part that I inherited. It… — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
“It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed onto the boundary wall of Caldwell,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. The… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality.… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind. — Socrates Copy Share Image
I don't write these stories for the rewards that come back to me. I write them because I have to write them.… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It is a compulsion, a spell we are all experiencing, the need to see justice done and someone put to death.” — John Ellsworth Copy Share Image
What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I should not yield to it, he told himself once again as he walked along carrying the briefcase. Compulsion-obsession-phobia. But he could… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
