Compel Quotes

132 Compel quotes by 109 unique authors

The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State. — Jean Monnet
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own… — Thomas Carlyle
Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things… — Boyd K. Packer
In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak… — Laozi
AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In… — Saint Augustine
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power..... — Plato
... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of… — Barack Obama
Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of… — Winston Churchill
At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians… — George Bernard Shaw
In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion is this: Make… — Twyla Tharp
The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they… — Felix Frankfurter
For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we… — William Tyndale
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive stress of intense… — Francesca Lia Block
A curious thing about Ugu the Shoemaker was that he didn't suspect in the least that he was wicked. He wanted to be powerful and… — L. Frank Baum
War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will. — Carl von Clausewitz
To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd. — Aleister Crowley
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept… — Richard Lewontin
The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life, — Mildred Fay Jefferson
If the Army wants witches and satanists in its ranks, then it can do it without Christians in those ranks. It's time for the Christians… — Paul Weyrich
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love isn't as simple as you wish it would be. On the other hand, it's nowhere near as complicated as you fear it is. My… — Rob Brezsny
The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere. — Carl von Clausewitz
No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time… — Douglas Hurd
If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative but to conceive… — Josef Pieper

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