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Compulsion Quotes by Simone Weil
- 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…
- Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials,…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same… — 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
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. — Pope Benedict XVI
- My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If… — John Cleese
- Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as… — Vaclav Havel