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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.
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
— Chauncey Wright
Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.
— Albrecht Durer
Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
— Walter Jon Williams
Make love an another human compulsion and you will fortify its limitation. Acquire it like knowledge and you will understand everything
— Ashutosh Gupta
Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.
— Martina Boone
Free Will was a vacuum, a negative space. It was the absence of coercion, the absence of compulsion, the absence of agony.
— Ian Tregillis
No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.
— Francois Fenelon
The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.
— Susan Orlean
Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.
— C.S. Lewis
Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.
— Publilius Syrus
Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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
Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.
— Charles R. Schwab
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.
— Joseph Sobran
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
— Quintilian
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
— Pope Benedict XVI
I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.
— Edward P. Jones
It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.
— Martina Boone
What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.
— Jaggi Vasudev
At its best, this is my calling. At its worst, it is a mad compulsion that I just can't shake.
— Zoe Klein
It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.
— Pawan Kalyan
Nothing is compulsory. Free will is paramount. But free will comes with the burden of consequences.
— Kelly Sue DeConnick
Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Maybe compassion is compulsion, creativity is insanity. If this is so, then is craziness a good thing, the source of our humanity?
— Rosie O'Donnell
Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?""Not particularly. You have that effect on people. — Martina Boone
It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth!
— Agatha Christie
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.
— Karl Kraus
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.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.
— William Golding
We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
If you need something desperately and find it, this is not an accident; your own craving and compulsion leads you to it.
— Hermann Hesse
Compulsion is attraction without reason.
— Candice Raquel Lee
Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. — William Shakespeare
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
— Mahatma Gandhi
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
— Ludwig Von Mises
In a sport that demands compulsion, sometimes the hardest task is having the confidence to rest.
— Chris Lear
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
— Woodrow Wilson
It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.
— Stephen R. Donaldson
Reading is not optional.
— Walter Dean Myers
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
— Karl Marx
If he was going to be held hostage to this unwanted compulsion, then she was damn well coming along for the ride.
— Nalini Singh
She freed me from my misanthropy, silence and inhibitions. From my compulsion to only make the right moves.
— Nina George
I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
— Paul Newman
Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.
— Swami Vivekananda
It's also important to reject any feelings of compulsion, guilt or negativity about sub-par or missed workouts.
— Mark Sisson
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.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
— Sinclair Lewis
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
No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
— Samuel Gompers
When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.
— E. Stanley Jones
We do just about anything to avoid pain and preserve a sense of self, and this compulsion often results in us creating psychological defenses.
— Tom Butler-Bowdon
The believer feels a compulsion to act far beyond basic altruism, and that defies explanation.
— Devorah Kalani
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
Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could havemade me do it, or prevented me from doing it. — J.K. Rowling
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
— Alexander Pushkin
Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Writing is a compulsion
— Airam
The individual has to awaken his intelligence, not through any form of discipline, resistance, compulsion, coercion, but through freedom.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
needing to be somewhere (now). In fact, he still felt this compulsion. It gnawed stubbornly at
— Brian Harmon
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
— C.S. Lewis
Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
— John Dos Passos
Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.
— Sigmund Freud
But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.
— Catherynne M Valente
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.
— Rosamunde Pilcher
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
— Aristotle.
An obsession is a defense against feeling out of control. A compulsion is the failure of that defense.
— Jill Alexander Essbaum
We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.
— William Shakespeare
Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
— Nikola Tesla
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
— Lynda Barry
