Compulsion Quotes

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.

Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.

It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.

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

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch.

It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing.

No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.

Government planning always involves compulsion.

I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You don't choose it, it chooses you. And I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.

any compulsion tries to justify itself.

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.