Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the…

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is…

— Karl Marx

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

— Themistocles

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone,…

— Anonymous

It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to…

— Charles Dickens

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

— Lynda Barry

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something…

— Edgar Mitchell

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

— Edward P. Jones

I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching…

— Ron Howard

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

— Plato

For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are,…

— Jess Walter

The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which…

— Jacques Ellul

“I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.”

— Amit Kalantri

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these…

— William Bernbach