He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force;… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion." — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used,… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
“The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure. — Gerald Seymour Copy Share Image
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like "I'm happy! I… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
