Compulsion Quotes

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

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

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

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

It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

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

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

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

It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing.

No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.

Government planning always involves compulsion.

I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You don't choose it, it chooses you. And I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.

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

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

any compulsion tries to justify itself.

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

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

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

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

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

My compulsion is to create things.

If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.

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

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

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

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

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

...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.

I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things.

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

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.

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

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

It was just a compulsion. In fact, I soon realized that the only thing I really enjoyed was the actual snorting.

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

The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.

I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.

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

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