The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If I feel like crying, I'll just cry in a dream. Something I really try not to do in my waking hours.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
“Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves… — Martina Boone Copy Share Image
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a… — T. R. Pearson Copy Share Image
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Marx.... Lenin.... Mao Tse-Tung.... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I think that it is a fallacy to suppose that helpful cooperation in the future will be assured by the attempted compulsion… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
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