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It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.
— Morton Irving Seiden
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
Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
Sin compels man to do those things that are not pleasing to God
— Sunday Adelaja
You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.
— Gloria Steinem
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
— Thomas Jefferson
If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
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
God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.
— Frederica Mathewes-Green
The instant her voice broke off ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
When it comes to texting the power of you thumbs compel you
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
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
The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.
— Lord Chesterfield
No one Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally. Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man.
— Stephen Spender
True love for our nation will compel us to shout on the streets and get on our knees and ask people to repent
— Sunday Adelaja
Foreshadowing is like playing cat and mouse. If done properly, it can be used to compel the reader to read on.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
We can compel men not to be bad, but we cannot compel them to be good, don't you find?
— Gregory David Roberts
I am empowered but have no power to compel anyone to do anything
— Kazeem Olalekan
I admit that the black man is inferior. But what is it that makes him so? It is the ignorance in which white men compel him to live;
— Harriet Jacobs
While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.
— Andrew Vachss
There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.
— Billie Burke
Each day, compel yourself to do something you would rather not do.
— Justin Bienvenue
The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The task of the tyrant is not to compel, but to persuade even the unwilling that compliance better serves their interest than resistance.
— Orson Scott Card
Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.
— Gayle Forman
Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.
— Henry David Thoreau
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
— Thomas Carlyle
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
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.
— Frank Herbert
Neither the devil nor the world, nor even our own evil heart can compel us to sin. It must be by our own consent and will.
— Billy Graham
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
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
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
— Thomas Aquinas
If due to ego you think:i shall not fight; this resolve of yours is vain. your own nature will compel you. — Anonymous
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
— W. H. Auden
Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.
— Milovan Djilas
I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
— Victoria Woodhull
Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.
— Debbie Ford
Take responsibility to compel your nation to adopt kingdom lifestyle
— Sunday Adelaja
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.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our passions don't just compel us; they can also heal us.
— Diane Guerrero
Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.
— Leo Tolstoy
We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.
— Dean Radin
The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.
— F. Sionil Jose
Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.
— Henry David Thoreau
You cannot compel love," he said finally, "nor summon it at will. Still less," he added ruefully, "can you dismiss it.
— Diana Gabaldon
Come out with your unique signal and don't always be compelled to go the common way. That is called innovation.
— Israelmore Ayivor
You can compel the memories from me, Aya, but you can't compel away my feelings," he said evenly.
— Nicole R. Taylor
Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.
— Sergei Lavrov
I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.
— Nicolas Cage
Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.
— Francis Quarles
The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.
— Jean Monnet
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
— James M. Barrie
Those things that inspire, enthuse, and compel you should consume your life.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.
— Aleister Crowley
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
As far as it's ideal that you get helped by people, it doesn't mean they are compelled to make your dreams come true without your own efforts.
— Israelmore Ayivor
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
Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence.
— George Holyoake
I use your trust in me to compel that will to action. That's leadership.
— Robert J. Crane
To advise is not to compel.
— Anton Chekhov