Compulsion Quotes

264 quotes by 204 authors

I was completely swept along with my own compulsion. I don't know how else to put it. It didn't satisfy me completely, so maybe I… — Jeffrey Dahmer
I still have guilt. I will probably never get rid of that, but yes, I'm free of the compulsion and the driving need to do… — Jeffrey Dahmer
A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning to live and… — Leah Cypess
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyoneâ€™s orders, directives, or controls; it does not… — Ayn Rand
The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are… — Lysander Spooner
To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not… — Robert Thurman
My compulsion is to create things. — Julian Schnabel
The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on. — Molly Harper
We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion. — William Shakespeare
Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a… — Soren Kierkegaard
You are not your past, not your habits, not your compulsions. When you get to know who you are, anything becomes possible. — Geneen Roth
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and… — Aristotle
No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion. — Samuel Gompers
Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome with the overwhelming… — James Patterson
Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution. — Paramahansa Yogananda
When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval… — Deepak Chopra
The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea,… — Jack Welch
Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul. — Plato
When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and… — Adolf Hitler
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort… — Ludwig von Mises

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