Compulsion Quotes

264 quotes by 204 authors

He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to… — Epictetus
Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many… — Vernon Howard
Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price. — Nikola Tesla
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to… — Ayn Rand
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or… — Ayn Rand
Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense… — Milton Friedman
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. — Joseph Sobran
There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion. — Frank Chodorov
The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the… — Ludwig von Mises
As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible;… — Eknath Easwaran
Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its… — James C. Collins
[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives. — Theodore J. Forstmann
The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its… — Mikhail Bakunin
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a… — Albert Schweitzer
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning. — Walter Gropius
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. — Woodrow Wilson
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode… — Simone Weil
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document. — H.G. Wells
I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. — Sinclair Lewis

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