My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion. — Mike Cernovich Copy Share Image
There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion." — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. — Ludwig von Mises 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
You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm. — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing. — Joost Meerloo 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
“Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?" "Not particularly. You have that effect on people.” — Martina Boone Copy Share Image
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning… — Leah Cypess Copy Share Image
Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, "for"… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
We humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. The… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed onto the boundary wall of Caldwell,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality.… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“He had always been a middle-of-the-road sort. He had never submitted word for word to anyone's command, but neither had he passionately… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command.” — Travis Luedke 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
It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an… — Pawan Kalyan 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
