Compulsion Quotes - Page 9

• ... human free will implies God's prior decision not to tamper with the metaphysical base of that free will. It also implies man's ability to reject the persuasion God uses to influence that free will while leaving its metaphysical base intact! Persuasion, not compulsion, is what even He must rely upon! And persuasion, by its very definition, must be resistible!

  Don Richardson

  Men, Rely Upon, Decision

  Don Richardson (1984). “Eternity in Their Hearts”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

  Jane Porter

  Love, Yield, All Things

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching that itch we're actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it. That's the philosophical side.

  Ron Howard

  Philosophical, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Among the many things that profoundly impress me about the Dalai Lama, quite high up on the list is his ability to say "I don't know". I've often wished that other people in prominent positions wouldn't feel the compulsion to have an answer for everything and would feel equally free to say "I don't know." It's a sign of wisdom to know that you don't know and a sign of stupidity to think that you know everything. I admire it enormously in him, and wonder why so few people in leading positions reach that stage.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Thinking, People, Stupidity

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• We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.

  Edith Stein

  Soul, Should

  Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.34, ICS Publications

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• Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced and direct response to the physical and social environment; that in most human affairs, more harm than good results from compulsion, top-down direction, bureaucratic planning, pre-ordained curricula, jails, conscription, states.

  Paul Goodman

  Intelligent, Jail, Top Down

  Paul Goodman (1967). “Like a conquered province: the moral ambiguity of America”

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• I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want to do it. It's a compulsion to explore a specific thing, as opposed to a compulsion to direct, generally speaking.

  Edward Norton

  Character, Ideas, Stories

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Schemes, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• There is no compulsion in Islam. You convert "voluntarily". But you are free not to convert by accepting subjugation, humiliation, discrimination and constant harassment. What can be more democratic?

  Ali Sina

  Islam, Discrimination, Accepting

  Source: myislam.dk

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• If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,
  I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Giving, Reason

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [267]

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• the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires.

  Silvia Tennenbaum

  Work, Passion, Fire

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• It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny and it has been bitter whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.

  Lord Byron

  Country, Destiny, Interesting

  From the Letters of Lord Byron, January 2, 1817.

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• When I was very small, I had that first-time-you-see-a-play experience, which immediately made me want to act, because it seemed like this incredible outlet for something I was already doing fairly compulsively anyway, which was putting on hats and costumes and doing funny voices. It was a very natural compulsion for me.

  Edward Norton

  Play, Voice, Want

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• When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or government action or the superior wisdom of a few, but of that system of competition and free enterprise, rewarding success and penalising failure, which enables every individual to participate by his private decisions in shaping the future of his society.

  Enoch Powell

  Government, Achievement, Decision

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• Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Worship, Distinguished, Saved

  Thomas Jefferson (1976). “Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary philosopher: a selection of writings”, Barron's Educational Series

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• I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the least ineluctable scent on a fearsome trail, but they like to face it alone, going out into the woods, among the leaves, if there are any leaves when their time comes, enduring without sentimental human distraction the Last Loneliness, which they are wise enough to know cannot be shared by anyone.

  James Thurber

  Death, Wise, Dog

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• I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream. So there is some compulsion involved. But the dividend I get is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.

  George Carlin

  Dream, Order, Space

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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• 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

  Funny, Humor, Dark

  1957 Alarms and Diversions,'There's A Time For Flags'.

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• Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog

  James Thurber

  Dog, Men, Wish

  James Thurber (1955). “Thurber's Dog's: A Collection of the Master's Dogs”

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• Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Political Will, May

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• It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep place of utter stillness, where the compulsion to immediately label and interpret whatever arises around you is no longer there.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Labels, World

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Religion, Imposition

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicide, Doubt, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.

  Scott Adams

  Life Is, Benign, This Life

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• Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick of myself. But then another idea starts percolating. It usually begins with the narrator's name, then some idea that intrigues me about her life or situation. I try to ignore it as long as I can, because I know when I start writing, I'll be right back into it, every single day. But eventually, I just have to. It's a compulsion!

  Sarah Dessen

  Book, Writing, Tired

  Source: fortheloveofya.com

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