Compulsion Quotes · Page 5

But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything…

— Hugh MacLennan

A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as…

— Raymond Cattell

If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe…

— Anonymous

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If…

— John Cleese

We humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. The…

— Katherine Paterson

Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story,…

— Carol Windley

I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north…

— Monica Ali

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

— William Godwin

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

— Ambrose Bierce

[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become…

— Theodore J. Forstmann

Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument…

— Emma Goldman

“Writer: It's not an occupation; it's a compulsion.”

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

— Karl Marx

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

In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its…

— Murray Rothbard

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

— John Milton

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of…

— Albrecht Durer

Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will…

— Robert A. Johnson

When Orson Welles was acting in 'Compulsion,' the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To…

— Robert Osborne

Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as…

— Vaclav Havel

The dividend I get [from my compulsion] is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.

— George Carlin

Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.

— Publilius Syrus

We all have a friend or family member who can't bear the sight of a mess. Use her obsessive compulsion to your…

— Clinton Kelly