Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them. — Chauncey Wright 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
“needing to be somewhere (now). In fact, he still felt this compulsion. It gnawed stubbornly at” — Brian Harmon Copy Share Image
“You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command.” — Travis Luedke Copy Share Image
“I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid of myself. I don't understand this compulsion of mine to seek out the street and the night when it does… — Aura Estrada Copy Share Image
No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has… — Jack Welch 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
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
The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality. — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.” — Martina Boone Copy Share Image
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn’t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn’t know, but she did know… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous. Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest… — Jazz Feylynn Copy Share Image
The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to… — Dale Rex Coman Copy Share Image
“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be… — Plato Copy Share Image
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Desire and loss of will tend to hurt the mind, which can lead to fear and compulsion. The result is that we… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same… — Winthrop W. Aldrich Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
One side of service is serving, but the other side is creating the space in oneself where the possibilities of giving one's… — Rafe Martin Copy Share Image
When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
