Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong. — Euripides Copy Share Image
The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them? — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
See with what force yon river's crystal stream Resists the weight of many a massy beam. To sink the wood the more… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them.… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
[Barack] Obama was reaching a point [with Syria bombing] where he might not have been able to carry it off.He was losing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Doing what you want to do is life; and there is no real satisfaction in living if we are compelled to be… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I just have this thing in my head that I want to do serious stories that are still just way too cute… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm not a doctor, nor am I a member of the military. What I am is an appreciative, concerned American citizen, who… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Without a deal [with Iran], the international sanctions regime will unravel with little ability to reimpose them. With this deal, we have… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
People with mental problems are our neighbors. They are members of our congregations, members of our families; they are everywhere in this… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
My objects dream and wear new costumes, compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands and the sea that… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted… — Moby Copy Share Image
The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors. — Caroline Baum Copy Share Image
A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Let men be compelled to wear our dress for awhile and we should soon hear them advocating a change. — Amelia Bloomer Copy Share Image
True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than… — Thucydides Copy Share Image