Compulsion Quote by Henri Frederic Amiel Download Open image “If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.” — Henri Frederic Amiel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compulsion Consent Nationalism Nationality State
I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of… — Horace Gray Copy Share Image
A country isn't sovereign if we can't control who comes in and who's allowed to come in. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If you say that your national law allows you to do something, it is fine as long as you do this inside your own… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery on the other hand is demanded and pursued by the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
“I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
