Top 100 Quotes About Compulsion
#1. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
Ludwig Von Mises
#2. While other individuals or institutions obtain their income by production of goods and services and by the peaceful and voluntary sale of these goods and services to others, the State obtains its revenue by the use of compulsion; that is, by the use and the threat of the jailhouse and the bayonet.
Murray Rothbard
#3. I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.
Casey Neistat
#4. Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.
Albrecht Durer
#5. An obsession is a defense against feeling out of control. A compulsion is the failure of that defense.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#6. The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading others by compulsion. It so functions today to an extent exasperating to the authoritarians - which is why they want to get rid of it.
Leonard Read
#7. The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself.
Ravi Zacharias
#8. It's also important to reject any feelings of compulsion, guilt or negativity about sub-par or missed workouts.
Mark Sisson
#9. When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.
Adolf Hitler
#10. A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.
Sylvia Nasar
#11. The recurring lovesickness of my teenage years often brought debilitating side effects, the worst of these being a compulsion to write Christian poetry.
Matthew Pierce
#12. She was a little thing, too, inciting that basic compulsion in him as a man to protect her in so hectic a place as post-war Israel. Even so, his actions were borne out of an entirely different instinct, altogether: to fool her and anyone within a dart's range ... to protect himself.
V.S. Carnes
#13. Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.
C.S. Lewis
#14. Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
Will Durant
#15. The realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.
Karl Marx
#16. Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
Yann Martel
#17. Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.
Rod Serling
#18. A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the
state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion,
of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the
fashionable idols!
Ludwig Von Mises
#19. needing to be somewhere (now). In fact, he still felt this compulsion. It gnawed stubbornly at
Brian Harmon
#20. Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.
Plato
#21. What is the compulsion to tell the truth if not a moral compulsion? Jacqueline Delon had asked. She was wrong. It's a survival necessity. You can't live if you can't accept what you are, and you can't accept what you are if you can't say what you do. The power of naming, as old as Adam. We
Glen Duncan
#22. Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.
Sharon Salzberg
#23. It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing.
Joost Meerloo
#24. The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.
Gerald Seymour
#25. I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
Paul Newman
#26. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:7
Suzanne Crocker
#27. Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
Walter Gropius
#28. Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome with the overwhelming compulsion to take Fang's temperature right then.
James Patterson
#29. If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,
I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.
William Shakespeare
#30. Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. Adrian!You Used compulsion on that guy. That ... I mean, it's ... "
"Awesome?Yeah,I Know
Richelle Mead
#32. Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#33. No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.
H.G.Wells
#35. You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm.
Sonam Kapoor
#36. And, at the same time, we began to build schools that are all inside and no outside, all stone and no garden, all power and no humility, all hulking system and no small child, all gears and no flowers, all compulsion and no promise.
Anthony Esolen
#37. Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you and pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?
Ayn Rand
#38. No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Plato
#39. Making decisions based on others' approval or on guilt breeds resentment, a product of our sinful nature. We have been so trained by others on what we "should" do that we think we are being loving when we do things out of compulsion.
Henry Cloud
#40. Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Very true. Then,
Plato
#41. The human spirit's unquenchable drive for originality and compulsion for creating art is the compelling force of our humanity.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#42. In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of religion and how is it used? Freud was in error when he held that religion is per se a compulsion neurosis. Some religion is and some is not.
Rollo May
#43. The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
Edna Ferber
#44. Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time ... ' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.
Victoria Aveyard
#45. [Justice George Sutherland said, in the majority opinion for the Carter Coal case] 'One who does a thing in order to avoid a monetary penalty does not agree; he yields to compulsion precisely the same as though he did so to avoid a term in jail.
Jim Powell
#46. Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
Plato
#47. It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
Tacitus
#48. The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed we have tried law , compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of.
Albert J. Nock
#49. Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.
Edward P. Jones
#50. I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.
Amor Towles
#51. We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be ...
Edith Stein
#53. I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
James Thurber
#54. Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#55. Why do I have the compulsion to caution you strenuously against going up those stairs, Windham? Perhaps you'll be swarmed by bats or set upon by little ghoulies with crossbows." "Oh, for God's sake, what could be hiding in an empty old carriage house?" ***
Grace Burrowes
#56. A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.
Kurt Vonnegut
#57. Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
Julie Burchill
#58. When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.
Marcus Aurelius
#59. The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government.
Walter E. Williams
#60. Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl Marx
#61. The individual has to awaken his intelligence, not through any form of discipline, resistance, compulsion, coercion, but through freedom.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#62. What is it about mundanes and their overwhelming compulsion to state the obvious?
Cassandra Clare
#63. [Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives.
Theodore J. Forstmann
#65. There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can preach at them: that is a hook without a worm. You can say, You must volunteer, and that is of the devil. You can tell them, You are needed. That appeal hardly ever fails.
Kurt Hahn
#66. I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white paper." ("The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi")
Rikki Ducornet
#67. I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.
Tennessee Williams
#68. The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
Albert Schweitzer
#69. I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
Lynda Barry
#70. I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.
Monica Ali
#72. We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.
Sigmund Freud
#74. I was completely swept along with my own compulsion. I don't know how else to put it. It didn't satisfy me completely, so maybe I was thinking, 'Maybe another one will. Maybe this one will.' And the numbers started growing and growing and just got out of control, as you can see.
Jeffrey Dahmer
#75. There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.
Frank Chodorov
#77. If he was going to be held hostage to this unwanted compulsion, then she was damn well coming along for the ride.
Nalini Singh
#79. Man's gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like something else.
Walter Benjamin
#80. For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
Xenophon
#81. Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
Nikola Tesla
#82. Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to find your true home.
Brenda Shoshanna
#83. I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want to do it. It's a compulsion to explore a specific thing, as opposed to a compulsion to direct, generally speaking.
Edward Norton
#84. In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.
Adolf Hitler
#85. I'm suffering from "Hyper-analytical Social Media Posting Disorder", characterized by a compulsion to edit 5 minutes after posting a comment, augmented by a repeating pattern: (((Tremors))) - fix-it - relief!!!
Will this comment survive?
Andrew Neff
#86. Thane gazed down at her, his entire world tipped on its axis. He'd never seen anything more miraculous than what he'd just witnessed. He'd never seen anything so beautiful.
Can I keep you? The words raced through his mind, a thought - and a nearly undeniable compulsion.
Keep you.
Heather Killough-Walden
#88. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. Aristotle
Christine Zolendz
#89. What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.
Epictetus
#90. I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.
Walter Cronkite
#91. For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.
Aleksa Palladino
#92. Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion
Xenophon
#93. 30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion.
John Smith
#94. What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.
Jaggi Vasudev
#95. Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.
Plato
#96. Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?
Joyce Carol Oates
#97. Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control,
constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave.
The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed
down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our
institutions.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#98. For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of people who write feel the same way.
T. R. Pearson
#99. As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.
Tom Hodgkinson
#100. I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.
Richard Simmons
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