“Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with… — Martina Boone Copy Share Image
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in… — Plato Copy Share Image
I understand the pain of others. this is attributed to compulsion. otherwise happiness would have made me arrogant — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable… — George Will Copy Share Image
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the… — Plato Copy Share Image
“If you need something desperately and find it, this is not an accident; your own craving and compulsion leads you to it.” — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me,… — Trinh T. Minh-ha Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on… — William Faulkner 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
The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
Without sounding cliché, music is like air. It provides for me. I don't necessarily look for what I can get out of… — Ishmael Butler 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
When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ,… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called… — Richard Rohr 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
When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For… — Marcus Aurelius 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
“But the other half of my motivation came from farther back in my brain, in the curious part that I inherited. It… — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's even hard to tell the difference between a tic and a compulsion. But while tics stem from an urge in… — Tim Howard Copy Share Image
The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I glanced at him. “Why did you eat the tiger?” He shrugged. “I don’t know. It was a compulsion. I saw him… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry.… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
