“ALWAYS likes to do things out of conviction rather than compulsion...” — Yalini Anamica Copy Share Image
Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure. — Gerald Seymour 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
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
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“HOLLOW-TOOTH SYNDROME: Compulsion to torture oneself mentally, based on the fact that nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I… — Bill Orcutt 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image
The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“But Tilo had crept up on him, and become a kind of compulsion, an addiction almost. Addiction has its own mnemonics –… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be. — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
“I write for the same reason I eat chocolate - because it is, undeniably a compulsion.” — Emma Shortt Copy Share Image
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The biggest problem is the big man / one wants to understand his compulsion — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
