Top 222 Compel Quotes & Sayings

The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.

Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.

The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.

There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.

God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.

Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.

What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

To advise is not to compel.

I don't even compel my wife to wear a mangalsutra or a bindi.

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.

Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active in the world.

Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.

Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.

Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free? more just it is, doubtless, if it come to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, their liberty, than that a greater number, for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be their fellow-slaves. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

The divine flame of thought is inextinguishable in the Filipino people, and somehow or other it will shine forth and compel recognition. It is impossible to brutalize the inhabitants of the Philippines!

If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.

Evangelists have absolutely no desire to physically or emotionally coerce anyone. In a sense, we are like doctors: we have a duty to tell you the truth, care for you, argue with you (if that is useful), but we can't compel you to do anything.

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

I have always employed humor, and I think it’s absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion. I mean, you can compel fear, as we know. You can compel love, actually, if somebody is isolated and dependent — it’s like the Stockholm syndrome. But you can’t compel laughter. It happens when two things come together and make a third unexpectedly. It happens when you learn something, too.

We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.

Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience.