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Involuntary Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
- Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
More Involuntary Quotes
- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. — Sarah Bernhardt
- Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. — William J. Brennan
- A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who… — John Climacus
- Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element… — Dalai Lama
- In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection… — Leo Tolstoy
- Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting… — Gerald Brenan
- By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject… — Strom Thurmond