Compulsion Quotes

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Covenants without the sword are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.

No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume the role of a criminal and initiate the use of physical compulsion against any man. Men have the right to use physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. The ethical principle involved is simple and clear-cut: it is the difference between murder and self-defense.

Faith comes not by compulsion, but it is a matter of free choice; therefore, no one has the authority to compel anyone else in such matters, nor to coerce him with new laws

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …

In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.

I am a workaholic, have always been.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

There is no compulsion in religion.

Everything has got a place in my house. If something is moved I get a panic attack.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of man, and his compulsion is our liberation.

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing-you may know that your society is doomed.

Fighting is not something that I enjoy doing. It's something that I do that I feel that I have to do.

I pray because I can't help myself.

When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

The state is force incarnate, its essence is command and compulsion.

I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to her, but I didn't understand why I was so compelled.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.