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It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything. — Morton Irving Seiden

I don't enjoy surprises that compel me to renegotiate my relationship with the past. — Adib Khan

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

Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response. — Fanny Fern

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

The War of 1812 was, at least in part, America's grand attempt to compel Europe to take the United States seriously as a sovereign nation. — Troy Bickham

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

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

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

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it. — Voltaire

No one Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally. Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man. — Stephen Spender

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people. — Vittorio Alfieri

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 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

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

Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition. — Tom Wicker

There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career. — Billie Burke

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

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

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

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

No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation. — Saul Alinsky

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

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

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-old debates about the role of government for all time - but it does require us to act in our time, — Barack Obama

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

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion. — Tertullian

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

...when these matters are discussed by practical people, the standard of justice depends on the equality of power to compel... — Thucydides

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

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

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts! — Virgil

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

The standards of this new time compel us to put our work in order before God. — Sunday Adelaja

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

And now the power of Christ is gonna compel you...to choke on my motherfucking dick. — Tim Seeley

If your vision doesn't compel, move or stir people, your vision is too small. — Craig Groeschel

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