So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live…

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I believe in reverencing anything in the life of man which has the testimony of the ages as being unexcelled, whether it be literature,…

— C.B. MacDonald

Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they have no…

— Henry David Thoreau

The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as the soil…

— Henry David Thoreau

The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which the speaker…

— Henry David Thoreau

I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what…

— Henry David Thoreau

I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man, who has…

— Henry David Thoreau

To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for a meaning…

— Victor J. Stenger

I've written a lot of other books and this book [Tears we cannot stop] was different. I couldn't just say what I wanted to…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.

— Lynda Barry

He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the…

— Pope Gregory I

Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to use it…

— Linda Stone

Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be…

— Charles Albert Gobat

When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God…

— Meister Eckhart

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson