Quotes About Compulsion

Adrian!You Used compulsion on that guy. That.... I mean, it's....." "Awesome?Yeah,I Know

If only it were that easy. You forget: I have an addictive personality. I'm addicted to you. Somehow I think you could do all sorts of bad things to me, and I'd still come back to you.

Comrades, I beg you – do not resort to compulsory taxation. There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Jubal paused, surprised at himself. He had intended to make the usual agnostic approach . . . and found himself compulsively following his legal training, being an honest advocate in spite of himself, attempting to support a religious belief he did not hold but which was believed by most human beings. He found that, willy-nilly, he was attorney for the orthodoxies of his own race against—he wasn't sure what. An unhuman viewpoint.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

A compulsion, a life with a goal, how could you tell the difference?

I give you a week, maybe two, before you're driven to bite someone. I don't know how to... to bite or drink! But you could teach me. And what could you possibly do in return? Lothaire waved a negligent hand. Play football for me? Break in my jeans really well?

Did he ask what she'd done in her room? Hell, no. At that point, and after that bewitching smile, if she'd murmured, I'm leading you into the fiery depths of hell, he'd have followed dumbly.

He'd given her his word—when he was soused and under duress from needing to tup her—but still his word.

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

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

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.

He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes.

Apparently the demented mouse also suffered from an eating disorder

When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.

obsession with peanut butter cookies

Sometimes we hunger for our own destruction.

a behavior repeated because it seems to produce reinforcement, even though it is actually unnecessary

What did I tell you about wandering off? Why don't you ever do anything I say? If I didn't know any better, I would swear that you feel a compulsion to disobey authoriy figures." "That can't be what it is," she said. "Well, that's what it seems like." "But I don't view you as an authority figure." "Oh, not this again.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.