Answers Quote by Pierre Bayle

any compulsion tries to justify itself.

— Joan Didion

“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 nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own…

— Aldous Huxley

“Your unavowed atrocities kill you from the inside out. What is the compulsion to tell the truth if not a moral compulsion? Jacqueline Delon…

— Glen Duncan

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

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

— Arca

The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.

— Max Horkheimer

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

— Tacitus

I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will…

— Pierre Bayle

Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact…

— Judith Viorst

Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not,…

— Dorotheus of Gaza

To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of…

— John Lancaster Spalding