Compulsion Quotes
264 quotes by 204 authors
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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
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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
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
— Nikola Tesla
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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
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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
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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
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Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.
— Joseph Sobran
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There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.
— Frank Chodorov
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
— Walter Gropius
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The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
— Woodrow Wilson
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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
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No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.
— H.G. Wells
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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
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
— Sinclair Lewis
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