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Compulsion Quotes by Sinclair Lewis
- Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
- 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…
More Compulsion Quotes
- 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
- 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
- There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion. — Frank Chodorov
- To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who… — Albert Schweitzer
- The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war… — Simone Weil