Quotes About Compulsion

bad men... aim at getting more than their share of advantages, while in labor and public service they fall short of their share; and each man wishing for advantage to himself criticizes his neighbor and stands in his way; for if people do not watch it carefully the common weal is soon destroyed. The result is that they are in a state of faction, putting compulsion on each other but unwilling themselves to do what is just.

All that is done on compulsion is bitterness to the soul.

É também prazeroso o que não é resultado da coação, porquanto esta se opõe à natureza. Consequentemente, aquilo que é ditado pela força da necessidade é doloroso, e daí o dito tão acertado: Tudo o que se faz por força da necessidade é amargo.

How could I possibly NOT be disappointed by what I would find? Nothing had ever met my expectation, since nothing could compete with my doctoring imagination, my pathetic compulsion to make the world quanter, funnier, kinder, and more mysterious than it actually was.

Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.

The communal life of human beings had, therefore, a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.

eÄŸer öpecek bir ÅŸeyiniz yoksa, sigara içmeniz kaç?n?lmazd?r.

the first axiom in flight school: takeoff is voluntary, but landing is compulsory.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again. (Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie)

May the dead forgive me, I can do no other But as I am commanded; to do more is madness. - Ismene

30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion.

Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who favor freedom are stigmatized as greedy?

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. The latter case, it is true, requires a much more cautious exercise of compulsion than the former. To make any one answerable for doing evil to others, is the rule; to make him answerable for not preventing evil, is, comparatively speaking, the exception.

A large fraction of our total economy has grown up around providing service and counseling to inadequate people -- and inadequate people are the main product of government compulsion schools.

La mentira no es siempre necesaria, pero es algo a lo que te acostumbras y no puedes parar

The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge and guilt.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

Ä°çgüdüsel olarak putlara tapt???m?zdan, düÅŸlerimizin ve ç?karlar?m?z?n nesnelerini kay?ts?z ÅŸarts?z ÅŸeyler haline getiririz.

Man inherits the capacity for loyalty, but not the use to which he shall put it. The persons and causes (if any) to which he shall devote himself are suggested to him, often, indeed, imposed upon him, by education and environment. Nevertheless, they are his by choice, not by hereditary compulsion. And his choice may be bad. He may unselfishly devote himself to what is petty or vile, as he may to what is generous and noble.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

When you're willing to play poker for two days and lose millions of dollars, it's no longer recreation. It's taking over.

Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.

When you can't have someone but you're not willing to accept that, you try harder and become more extreme about it. Either you win the person back or you drive him away.