Compulsion Quotes

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I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I… — David Guterson
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion. — Quintilian
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W.… — David Foster Wallace
Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking heads, but the… — James Fitzjames Stephen
We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely… — Ludwig von Mises
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. — John Milton
Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. — Albert Einstein
The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won… — Eric Metaxas
All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from… — Carl Jung
Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion. — Walter Jon Williams
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic — Mahatma Gandhi
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders… — John Dos Passos
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and… — Sinclair Lewis
If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them… — Winthrop W. Aldrich
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. — Aristotle
TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO DIE, AND TO… — Karl A. Menninger
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is… — Eric Hoffer
When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are… — Zhuangzi
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if… — Betty Friedan

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