Compelled Quotes
Compelled Quote of the day
Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man.
Let men be compelled to wear our dress for awhile and we should soon hear them advocating a change.
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults
A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.
When you find that the horse is compelled and interested in you, something in you changes. That can be healing or move you deeply.
The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
I am a very peaceful man. I love people and am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate my guns, I will feel compelled to give them to you, one bullet at a time.
Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.
True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.
One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.
Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.
Those who are compelled to paint by force, without being in the necessary mood, can produce only ungainly works, because this profession requires an unruffled temper.
As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.
If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.
Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means.
When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.
No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.
The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files.
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas.
He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the highest things.
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.
Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.
The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.
One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.
If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.
Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.
I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of us to the immense hardships beyond our borders.
It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.
Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.