Avoidance Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain

— Samuel Butler

any compulsion tries to justify itself.

— Joan Didion

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

— Tacitus

“Compulsion: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) to force someone to do something or create an irresistible…

— Alex Lane

“The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem is ultimately…

— Russell Brand

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to…

— James Anthony Froude

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

— Samuel Johnson

Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by which it…

— Pierre Bayle

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an…

— Auberon Herbert

Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards.

— Arca

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled…

— Niccolo Machiavelli