Compulsion Quotes · Page 5

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

— Albrecht Durer

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

— Walter Gropius

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

— Anonymous

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

— Plato

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.

— Anonymous

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

— Edna Ferber

Adrian!You Used compulsion on that guy. That… I mean, it's…" "Awesome?Yeah,I Know

— Richelle Mead

Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a…

— Brenda Shoshanna

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

— Tom Robbins

Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome…

— James Patterson

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

— Joseph Sobran

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for…

— Alan Alda

“couldn’t remember and the odd compulsion that had driven him out of his bed and into the cool August”

— Brian Harmon

Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human…

— Vaclav Havel

“Women, Elena believed, appealed to men in direct proportion to their vacuousness. The male had an overwhelming compulsion to teach, to mold…

— Joyce Haber

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

— Vaclav Havel

When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward…

— John Steinbeck

When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced…

— Eckhart Tolle

Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

“Emma felt a compulsion to run her hands through it. To step into his arms and never leave. Desire shot to her…

— Amanda Clark

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

There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason…

— Jonathan Raban

I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species…

— Ron Howard

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make…

— William Shakespeare

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

The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought,…

— Albert Einstein

“Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of…

— Walter Lippmann

Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because…

— Clement Greenberg

Desire and loss of will tend to hurt the mind, which can lead to fear and compulsion. The result is that we…

— Hyon Gyon

“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his…

— Marcel Proust

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

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

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

— Jane Porter

When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.

— E. Stanley Jones

“It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]”

— Dante Alighieri

Change can't be a compulsion. It has to happen organically.

— Smriti Irani

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

— Juliana Hatfield

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

— Plato

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

— Albert Einstein