Compulsion Quotes

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully. - Martin Buber

We are comfortable with compulsion in other walks of life, such as jury duty or the requirement to educate our children. - Ben Rogers

This is the excellent foppery of the world; that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and traitors by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence. - William Shakespeare

This is exactly the point we were trying to make. What's the rush? Just give her a chance. Medical science is not that certain. We would hope the whole process will slow down, and everyone will step back and end the compulsion to end her life. - John Egan

There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence. - Jonathan Raban

There is no compulsion to doing that. - Gerald Levin

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. - John Dos Passos

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. - Joan Didion

The free man is not he who defies the rules...but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest each day's experience. - Bernard Iddings Bell