Compel Quotes

132 quotes by 113 authors

If your vision doesnâ€™t compel, move or stir people, your vision is too small. — Craig Groeschel
[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own. — Milovan ?ilas
I'm drawn to very large texts that are mammothly popular in different parts of the world but are almost unknown here [the USA]. They're safe… — Mary Zimmerman
The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly of all lands,… — Lysander Spooner
No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for… — Victoria Woodhull
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years,… — Mary MacLane
You cannot compel someone to love. Love is like the wind. It comes when it does, it stops when it does, it changes direction when… — Frederick Lenz
Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition. — Tom Wicker
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; . .… — Thomas Jefferson
Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but… — George Orwell
No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever… — Immanuel Kant
The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organized… — Marcus Garvey
To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly… — Josephus Daniels
But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination,… — John Henninger Reagan
Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of… — Vladimir Lenin
With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to the workers who… — Flora Tristan
Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows. — Henry David Thoreau
However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced… — William Hazlitt
Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated pretty clearly that… — Edward Norton
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. — Thomas Jefferson

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