Quotes about Compulsion

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Votes: 5

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning. Votes: 5

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. Votes: 5

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. Votes: 5

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. Votes: 5

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives. Votes: 5

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. Votes: 5

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. Votes: 5

I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it. Votes: 5

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are. Votes: 5

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom. Votes: 5

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. Votes: 4

When Orson Welles was acting in 'Compulsion,' the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To be able to see Welles - who knew more about directing than anyone - direct himself and the other actors, it was unbelievable and unforgettable. Votes: 4

The compulsion of fate is bitter. Votes: 3

Compulsion is the death of friendship. Votes: 3

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. Votes: 3

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things. Votes: 3

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion. Votes: 3

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them. Votes: 3

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. Votes: 3

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain. Votes: 3

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. Votes: 3

Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. Votes: 3

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known. Votes: 3

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs Votes: 3

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens Votes: 3

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. Votes: 3

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. Votes: 3

A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning to live and love for the first time. Atmospheric and suspenseful, Compulsion will draw you in and hold you until the very last page. Votes: 3

I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled. Votes: 3

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. Votes: 2

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. Votes: 2

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life. Votes: 2

Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense. Votes: 2

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. Votes: 2

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks. Votes: 2

It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. Votes: 2

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me. Votes: 2

It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future. Votes: 2

Government planning always involves compulsion. Votes: 0

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion. Votes: 0

My compulsion is to create things. Votes: 0

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power. Votes: 0

any compulsion tries to justify itself. Votes: 0

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse. Votes: 0

Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion. Votes: 0

I had a compulsion to do it. Votes: 0

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. Votes: 0

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion. Votes: 0

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion. Votes: 0

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition. Votes: 0

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. Votes: 0

No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion. Votes: 0

Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony. Votes: 0

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder. Votes: 0

I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things. Votes: 0

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing. Votes: 0

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. Votes: 0

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion. Votes: 0

As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces. Votes: 0

Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline? Votes: 0

The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence. Votes: 0

I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion. Votes: 0

Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong. Votes: 0

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion. Votes: 0

I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not. Votes: 0

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution. Votes: 0

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Votes: 0

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Votes: 0

There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion." Votes: 0

We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be... Votes: 0

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement. Votes: 0

The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure. Votes: 0

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion. Votes: 0

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion. Votes: 0

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document. Votes: 0

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price. Votes: 0

Adrian!You Used compulsion on that guy. That.... I mean, it's....." "Awesome?Yeah,I Know Votes: 0

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic Votes: 0

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing. Votes: 0

I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion "” or an itch. Votes: 0

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse. Votes: 0

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion. Votes: 0

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. Votes: 0

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed. Votes: 0

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom. Votes: 0

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency. Votes: 0

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion. Votes: 0

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed. Votes: 0

The dividend I get [from my compulsion] is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld. Votes: 0

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients. Votes: 0

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation. Votes: 0

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion. Votes: 0

It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing. Votes: 0

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites. Votes: 0

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth Votes: 0

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire Votes: 0

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian. Votes: 0

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business. Votes: 0

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. Votes: 0

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide. Votes: 0

the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires. Votes: 0

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? Votes: 0

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion. Votes: 0

What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion. Votes: 0

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion. Votes: 0

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion. Votes: 0

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. Votes: 0

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. Votes: 0

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. Votes: 0

It was just a compulsion. In fact, I soon realized that the only thing I really enjoyed was the actual snorting. Votes: 0

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. Votes: 0

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind. Votes: 0

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. Votes: 0

The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality. Votes: 0

The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk. Votes: 0

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. Votes: 0

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius. Votes: 0

You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm. Votes: 0

Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. Votes: 0

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion. Votes: 0

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul. Votes: 0

It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor. Votes: 0

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Votes: 0

[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives. Votes: 0

Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...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. Votes: 0

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied. Votes: 0

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. Votes: 0

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion. Votes: 0

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it. Votes: 0

The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love. Votes: 0

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog Votes: 0

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion. Votes: 0

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them. Votes: 0

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity. Votes: 0

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion. Votes: 0

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being? Votes: 0

Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering. Votes: 0

When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively. Votes: 0

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake. Votes: 0

I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too. Votes: 0

Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it. Votes: 0

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance. Votes: 0

The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room. Votes: 0

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power. Votes: 0

I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it. Votes: 0

A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like 'I'm happy! I swear!' I'm not buying it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot that fits nobody. Votes: 0

There is no compulsion in Islam. You convert "voluntarily". But you are free not to convert by accepting subjugation, humiliation, discrimination and constant harassment. What can be more democratic? Votes: 0

Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things. Votes: 0

Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it. Votes: 0

The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness. Votes: 0

Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment. Votes: 0

There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A large fraction of our total economy has grown up around providing service and counseling to inadequate people -- and inadequate people are the main product of government compulsion schools. Votes: 0

When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion? Votes: 0

A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like "I'm happy! I swear!" I'm not buying it. I don't believe them. Votes: 0

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else. Votes: 0

The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so. Votes: 0

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak. Votes: 0

there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to "do well" in the world instead of living well. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action-fast. Votes: 0

To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who favor freedom are stigmatized as greedy? Votes: 0

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. Votes: 0

Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the world to use her compulsion for your own psycho plans. Votes: 0

What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on the part of gendarmes, hangmen and penal courts, it is self interest. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Without sounding cliché, music is like air. It provides for me. I don't necessarily look for what I can get out of it. It's a compulsion. I've always gotten out of it everything. Votes: 0

Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You don't choose it, it chooses you. And I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens. Votes: 0

They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear shuts it; that encourages, this compels; and victory meets encouragement, but flees compulsion. Votes: 0

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness." Votes: 0