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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
— Chauncey Wright
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
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
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
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
I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
— Lynda Barry
Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
— Nikola Tesla
needing to be somewhere (now). In fact, he still felt this compulsion. It gnawed stubbornly at
— Brian Harmon
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
We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.
— William Shakespeare
An obsession is a defense against feeling out of control. A compulsion is the failure of that defense.
— Jill Alexander Essbaum
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
— Aristotle.
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
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
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.
— Karl Kraus
If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. — William Shakespeare
When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.
— Eckhart Tolle
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
— Mahatma Gandhi
When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.
— E. Stanley Jones
The individual has to awaken his intelligence, not through any form of discipline, resistance, compulsion, coercion, but through freedom.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Writing is a compulsion
— Airam
Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
— Alexander Pushkin
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
Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The believer feels a compulsion to act far beyond basic altruism, and that defies explanation.
— Devorah Kalani
Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.
— Swami Vivekananda
No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
— Samuel Gompers
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
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
— Sinclair Lewis
There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
It's also important to reject any feelings of compulsion, guilt or negativity about sub-par or missed workouts.
— Mark Sisson
But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.
— Catherynne M Valente
