Quotes About Compel

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

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

Speech is power; speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.

all relations of power rest on one thing, a contract between the leader and the followers such that the followers believe it is in their interest to follow the leader. No man can compel another—except at knifepoint—to do what he does not want to do."17

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.

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

The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.

Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.

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.

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

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.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

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

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

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The power of Christ compels you!

Who are my readers? How do I reach them? What are their motivations? What are the problems I can help them solve? How can I entertain them and inform them at the same time? What content will compel them to purchase what I have to offer? To be successful, you need to do the same thing.