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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them. — Chauncey Wright

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

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

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

I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

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

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price. — Nikola Tesla

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

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

needing to be somewhere (now). In fact, he still felt this compulsion. It gnawed stubbornly at — Brian Harmon

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

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

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

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

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. — Plato

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

There shall be no compulsion in religion: true guidance has become distinct from error. — Anonymous

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 have
made 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do. — Catherynne M Valente

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

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