Quotes about Compulsion
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
— Thomas Jefferson
I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.
— Beth Moore
I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me.
— Mark Lanegan
Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.
— Oswald Chambers
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
— Thomas Jefferson
Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt: "The Fates lead him who will; him who won't, they drag.
— Joseph Campbell
The scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The denial of an objective moral law based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God results ultimately in the denial of evil itself.
— Ravi Zacharias
Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.
— Joseph Heller
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.
— Duke Ellington
When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.
— Martin Luther