A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under… — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed… — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
No director wants to make films with stars. It is a compulsion for them. — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things. — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image
“We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever… — Martina Boone Copy Share Image
I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Although Grandma's passion had led me to the power of food, not all of her recipes were healthy. I kept her gusto… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks… — Bernard Iddings Bell Copy Share Image
When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
