Allegiance Quote by Max Horkheimer

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

“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

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

— Albert Einstein

The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.

— Frances G. Wickes

Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.

— Mason Cooley

“have been so trained by others on what we “should” do that we think we are being loving when we do things out of…

— Henry Cloud

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

— Orison Swett Marden

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

“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

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

“Conscience is the endowment that senses our congruence or disparity with correct principles and lifts us toward them—when it’s in shape.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“A compulsive external search only leads us to the interpretation of another’s path. True identity and sustained harmony can only be achieved by turning…

— Gary Hopkins