Quotes About Compel

Do you accept reality, or shall the narcissistic individual have the absolute right to live in their own permanent fantasy world, and compel everyone else to go along with their fantasy? When the lunatic in a mental asylum says he is Napoleon, we must bellow, 'Vive l'Empereur!' and join his Grande Armée, and all march to Waterloo to meet our fate.

Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

If you try to follow the language of thought in your own mind, you will not find even the simplest sentences- only shreds, fragments of sentences, scattered as after an explosion, have greater effect on the reader than the same thoughts and images arranged in regular, steady, marching ranks?...because you meet the reader's natural instinctive need. You do not compel him to skim

The Sunrise—Sire—compelleth Me— Because He's Sunrise—and I see— Therefore—Then— I love Thee—

And can you be forced by anyone to desire something against your will? 'No.

You want the story to be about something, have some deeper meaning, but there is also an emotional, almost instinctual, element, which is, does this story seize some part of you and compel you to get to the bottom of it?

And nature must obey necessity.

Persuasion is better than force.

The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life.

Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.

It comes out better if one persuades rather than compels. Let me suggest to the reader that the assumptions be examined—both about the making of profit and about undertaking to compel service by law. Is all that we want from profit-making business the lowest price we can exact? In my own efforts to help business to become more serving I feel that I am contending with a popular view that price is all.

To get what we want, we are compelled to negotiate.

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.

20. Oblígame (Make Me)

In an objective approach, force and value are opposites. The goal of a proper society, accordingly, is not to compel truth or virtue (which would be a contradiction in terms), but to make them possible—by ensuring that men are left free.

In religion as in natural science, experience is determined only by experience. It is fatal to prejudge it, to compel it to fit the mould imposed by a theory which either does not correspond to the facts at all, or corresponds to only some of the facts.

Persuasion is better than force.

The instant her voice broke off ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.

I can compel no man to agree with my opinions, but at least I can compel him to have an opinion.

Compel a person to an opinion, a conviction, a belief - in all eternity, that I cannot do. But one thing I can do: I can compel him to become aware.

We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.