Top 398 Compulsion Quotes & Sayings

I do have that compulsion to organize moments into a larger thing.

Change can't be a compulsion. It has to happen organically.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

Government planning always involves compulsion.

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

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

I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things.

When I was in the PMO, Digvijaya Singh used to call me whenever he wanted to see the PM. He used to go through me. He is under compulsion to criticise me, but I am under no compulsion to criticise him.

As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.

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

any compulsion tries to justify itself.

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.

Donald Trump has a compulsion to counterattack and is very pugnacious.

Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.

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

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion."

The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent; and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?

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

No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

My compulsion is to create things.

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

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.

Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.

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.

the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves.

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

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

My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch.

There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be right-especially theologically right. (That's merely an ego trip, and because of this "need" churches split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally, there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control.

One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

The dividend I get [from my compulsion] is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.

No director wants to make films with stars. It is a compulsion for them.