Quotes About Compel

#1. If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put an end to, they compel them to fulfil their vows.

Pope Innocent III

#2. [Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.

Milovan Djilas

#3. Problems never just go away or take care of themselves, especially when God allows them in order to shape our character. God will patiently wait and allow the circumstances to compel us to do what we should have done at the beginning: surrender all control to God.

Wayne Stiles

#4. There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

James Russell Lowell

#5. The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

#6. We can compel men not to be bad, but we cannot compel them to be good, don't you find?

Gregory David Roberts

#7. To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

Orison Swett Marden

#9. Foreshadowing is like playing cat and mouse. If done properly, it can be used to compel the reader to read on.

Mary Sage Nguyen

#10. When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.

Erik Erikson

#11. The standards of this new time compel us to put our work in order before God.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.

Debbie Ford

#13. ...Job rails against God, not as a skeptic, not as a stranger to God's justice, but precisely as a believer. It is the very depth of Job's commitment to God's ethical vision that makes his rage so fierce, and that will finally compel an answer from God. (pg. 133)

Ellen F. Davis

#14. There are also many instances where people hostile to the Soviet state are attempting by means of deceit and provocation to poison the minds of our citizens and compel them to believe in monstrous lies.

Filipp Golikov

#15. Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#16. To be sucked down by this whirling stream is to fall into abysses of madness, more frightful than those of death; to expel the shades of this chaos and compel it to give perfect forms to our thoughts - this is to be a man of genius; it is to create, it is to be victorious over hell! The

Eliphas Levi

#17. We hold that happenings which may even compel the heart to break cannot break the human spirit, or rob it of its most essential qualities.

May Kendall

#18. The burly woodsman who attaks the diminutive pine of the east must experience remorse, as would a strong man who made war upon a boy, but [the Redwood] is something to compel his respect; he must feel that in grappling with these monsters he is doing the work of a Hercules.

Jared Farmer

#19. The professional tackles the project that will make him stretch. He takes on the assignment that will bear him into uncharted waters, compel him to explore unconscious parts of himself.

Steven Pressfield

#20. AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness ... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

Saint Augustine

#21. If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.

John Lancaster Spalding

#22. Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.

Anthony Lewis

#23. The first paragraph of my book must get me my reader. The last paragraph of a chapter must compel my reader to turn the page. The last paragraph of my book must ensure that my reader looks out for my next book.

Ashwin Sanghi

#24. Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active in the world.

Jaggi Vasudev

#25. The existence of laws, regulations, and procedures has never been sufficient to
compel men to obedience. Productive obedience comes through the exercise of
free will.

Dean L. Larsen

#26. Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at sea will compel him once again to dream of it, torment him with the absurdity of longing for something that he loathes.

Yukio Mishima

#27. The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life,

Mildred Fay Jefferson

#28. I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

Bernard Malamud

#29. The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

Leo Tolstoy

#30. Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.

Howard Rheingold

#31. Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change.

Sharon Weil

#32. To advise is not to compel.

Anton Chekhov

#33. The divine flame of thought is inextinguishable in the Filipino people, and somehow or other it will shine forth and compel recognition. It is impossible to brutalize the inhabitants of the Philippines!

Jose Rizal

#34. When it comes to texting the power of you thumbs compel you

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#35. There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.

Billie Burke

#36. General belief is "There is no real magic, only tricks" but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all "There does exist a real magic".

Amit Kalantri

#37. Even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.

Susan B. Anthony

#38. The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career - whether you are playing to 100,000 people at Glastonbury or 1,000 kids in a club.

Steven Van Zandt

#39. If the Army wants witches and satanists in its ranks, then it can do it without Christians in those ranks. It's time for the Christians in this country to put a stop to this kind of nonsense. A Christian recruiting strike will compel the Army to think seriously about what it is doing.

Paul Weyrich

#40. To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

Aleister Crowley

#41. Doth not a flight through illimitable plains of the ether of love inflame thy heart and compel thee to delight thyself in the Lord thy God?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#42. God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.

Emily Dickinson

#43. Take responsibility to compel your nation to adopt kingdom lifestyle

Sunday Adelaja

#44. It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.

Tertullian

#45. I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.

Mary MacLane

#46. I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

Nicolas Cage

#47. Live your life as if everyone will discover what you do and who you are. If no one holds your secrets, there's nothing to compel you to male choices that are not your own.

April White

#48. Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#49. Two things compel me to move. First, the fear of being alone. I don't want to be alone here. Second, the aching need to beat Blake in any way.

Alex Rosa

#50. The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.

Oswald Chambers

#51. Sin compels man to do those things that are not pleasing to God

Sunday Adelaja

#52. But Governments and peoples do not always take rational decisions. Sometimes they take mad decisions, or one set of people get control who compel all others to obey and aid them in folly.

Winston S. Churchill

#53. If your vision doesn't compel, move or stir people, your vision is too small.

Craig Groeschel

#54. The authorities don't grant concessions out of the kindness of their hearts; they simply concede the reality of what their subjects are strong enough to compel from them. If you want political leverage, don't beg for it, don't seek it through their channels - take power outside them.

CrimethInc.

#55. The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union

James Buchanan

#56. Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.

Sergei Lavrov

#57. The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law will not interfere to compel him. The master must do his own flogging, as in the case of an ox or a horse.

Lysander Spooner

#58. No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.

Saul Alinsky

#59. Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.

George Orwell

#60. Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

Gene Wolfe

#61. So while the book Giving Back serves as a moving tribute, "The Soul of Philanthropy" exhibit and its programs are meant to compel us toward a triumphant movement of conscious giving for social change.

Valaida Fullwood

#62. The Drake's didn't lure drunk college students out of the bars and compel them to forget being fed on. Well, maybe Quinn used to, but I could guarantee none of those girls needed to be compelled.

Alyxandra Harvey

#63. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I want a woman who is better than I am; a woman who will compel me to bow my head in admiration.

Amish Tripathi

#64. Our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice.

Barack Obama

#65. The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave.

Ludwig Von Mises

#66. Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue to compel students to try to pass them?

Anya Kamenetz

#67. It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.

Morton Irving Seiden

#68. Spare neither labor in the study, prayer in the closet, nor zeal in the pulpit. If men do not judge their souls to be worth a thought, compel them to see that their minister is of a vex], different opinion.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#69. Come out with your unique signal and don't always be compelled to go the common way. That is called innovation.

Israelmore Ayivor

#70. Nature sometimes joins her effects and her appearances to our acts with a sort of serious and intelligent appropriateness; as if she would compel us to reflect.

Victor Hugo

#71. I am empowered but have no power to compel anyone to do anything

Kazeem Olalekan

#72. No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

Mahatma Gandhi

#73. At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary, more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

George Bernard Shaw

#74. there are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue and the other is to compel men to truth.

Robert Graves

#75. Man's rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive another of his life, or enslave him, or rob him, or prevent him from pursuing his own goals, or compel him to act against his own rational judgment.

Ayn Rand

#76. But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

John H. Reagan

#77. God is most high. To choose God, his light, his way his truth (all Christ), means everything flows from the highest point. To choose something lesser is to compel your life to flow from a lesser rise - a hill, rather than a mountain.

Elizabeth Scalia

#78. You cannot compel someone to love. Love is like the wind. It comes when it does, it stops when it does, it changes direction when it does. Who are you and I to criticize the wind?

Frederick Lenz

#79. If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#80. What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.

Alexander Berkman

#81. You cannot compel love," he said finally, "nor summon it at will. Still less," he added ruefully, "can you dismiss it.

Diana Gabaldon

#82. It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

Bruce Barton

#83. And if Americans are willing to stand for what they believe in, I also expect public opinion to compel the U.S. government to open a torture and war crimes investigation.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#84. Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

Henry David Thoreau

#85. If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#86. I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

Francesca Lia Block

#87. Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

Thomas Aquinas

#88. One of the defining features of the Anthropocene is that the world is changing in ways that compel species to move, and another is that it's changing in ways that create barriers - roads, clear-cuts, cities - that prevent them from doing so.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#89. Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.

Wilfrid Laurier

#90. If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits.

Jean-Jacques Nattiez

#91. In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle - this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.

Laozi

#92. If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#93. If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk.

Spencer Abraham

#94. Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.

Henry David Thoreau

#95. History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

B.R. Ambedkar

#96. Humor is the only free emotion. I mean, you can compel fear, as we know. You can compel love, actually ... But you can't compel laughter. It happens when two things come together and make a third unexpectedly.

Gloria Steinem

#97. The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither compel affirmation of a repugnant belief, nor penalize or discriminate against individuals or groups because they hold views abhorrent to the authorities.

William J. Brennan

#98. It's so important for business leaders to discover what their purpose is. In the days when the business seems overwhelming, or you aren't certain you can continue, it is your purpose that will compel you to push through.

Anne F. Beiler

#99. How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

Louis Pasteur

#100. I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe.

Rosemary Mahoney