Quotes about Compel

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. Votes: 3

To advise is not to compel. Votes: 2

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts! Votes: 2

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall. Votes: 2

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Votes: 2

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. Votes: 2

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal. Votes: 2

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong. Votes: 2

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made. Votes: 2

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! Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Since we replaced the compulsory military draft with an all-volunteer force in 1973, our nation has been making decisions about wars without worry over who fights them. I sincerely believe that reinstating the draft would compel the American public to have a stake in the wars we fight as a nation. Votes: 2

If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever. Votes: 2

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists. Votes: 2

I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we've ever invented has quite done before. Votes: 2

We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would choose - freely choose - to keep His commandments and come unto His Beloved Son. They do not compel us. They cannot, for that would interfere with the plan of happiness. And so there is in us a God-given desire to be responsible for our own choices. Votes: 2

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. Votes: 0

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion. Votes: 0

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. Votes: 0

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness. Votes: 0

Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response. Votes: 0

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people. Votes: 0

No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation. Votes: 0

If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere. Votes: 0

Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot. Votes: 0

There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career. Votes: 0

Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential. Votes: 0

If your vision doesn’t compel, move or stir people, your vision is too small. Votes: 0

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will. Votes: 0

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it. Votes: 0

It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything. Votes: 0

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man. Votes: 0

No one Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally. Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man. Votes: 0

God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel. Votes: 0

We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement. Votes: 0

Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack. Votes: 0

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd. Votes: 0

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects. Votes: 0

The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State. Votes: 0

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall. Votes: 0

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice. Votes: 0

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command. Votes: 0

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television. Votes: 0

God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you. Votes: 0

Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever. Votes: 0

Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows. Votes: 0

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own. Votes: 0

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger. Votes: 0

Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition. Votes: 0

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power..... Votes: 0

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep Votes: 0

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, Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven. Votes: 0

They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid? Votes: 0

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time. Votes: 0

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors. Votes: 0

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful. Votes: 0

Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree. Votes: 0

What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland. Votes: 0

Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk. Votes: 0

The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organized and you will compel the world to respect you. Votes: 0

Truth is the old way. Truth dates back to the time when your word was your bond, and you didn't need papers in a language you couldn't understand to compel you to act honestly. Votes: 0

The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

... 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. Votes: 0

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour? Votes: 0

Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0