Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called… — Richard Rohr 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
Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many… — David F. Ford Copy Share Image
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
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A writer has to have some kind of compulsive drive to do his work. If you don't have it, you'd better find… — John McPhee 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
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder. — Robert Atkins Copy Share Image
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic — Mahatma Gandhi 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
The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with… — Edward Betts Copy Share Image
As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed… — David Eddings 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
Our principle is: to prevent all command over man by his fellowmen, to, make state, government, laws, or whatsoever form of compulsion… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
