I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth.… — Martina Boone Copy Share Image
Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable… — George Will Copy Share Image
You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
It was just a compulsion. In fact, I soon realized that the only thing I really enjoyed was the actual snorting. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“He had always been a middle-of-the-road sort. He had never submitted word for word to anyone's command, but neither had he passionately… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.” — Martina Boone Copy Share Image
There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not… — Plato 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
While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires. — Silvia Tennenbaum Copy Share Image
Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
