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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

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

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse. — Juliana Hatfield

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

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. — T. R. Pearson

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

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. — Nate Lowman

What is it about mundanes and their overwhelming compulsion to state the obvious? — Cassandra Clare

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

Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion. — A.E. Samaan

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

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. — Pete Seeger

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

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion. — Tacitus

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

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed. — Aeschylus

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

There is only one relief for great sufferings, and that is to endure and surrender to their compulsion. — Seneca.

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

If the if isn't an if, what if is an if that if has to be replaced by an if that if shall never if that the place of if. — Avakruth

The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on. — Molly Harper

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

I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself. — Patti Smith

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

Many people give out of obligation and compulsion, which leads to resentment. — Henry Cloud

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 have
made 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

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. — Plato

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

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. — Ken Robinson

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

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. — Alain Badiou

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

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning. — Walter Gropius

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

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document. — H.G.Wells

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. — Karl Marx

You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command. — Travis Luedke

Compulsion, guilt, pick your poison.' Meaty shrugged. 'You make a better nurse than a patient. — Cassie Alexander

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. — Albert Einstein