Compel Quotes

132 Compel quotes by 109 unique authors

What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from… — Robert Pape
To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on which one has… — Vimala Thakar
What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it… — Alexander Berkman
No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation. — Saul Alinsky
Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when… — Jane D. Hull
Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive… — Ayn Rand
Our voice resonates with life. Because this is so, it can touch the lives of others. The caring and compassion imbued in your voice finds… — Daisaku Ikeda
It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything. — Morton Irving Seiden
Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be… — Jaggi Vasudev
If your vision doesn’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

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