Quotes about Compulsion

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.

How do they and their fellows, the Jesuits,19 exclaim upon poor Calvin, for sometimes using the hard word of compulsion, describing the effectual, powerful working of the providence of God in the actions of men; but they can fasten the same term on the will of God, and no harm done!

Laughter is the only free emotion-the only one that can't be compelled.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

So dear is sin to a man that he will rather part with a child than with a lust

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

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.

we too easily assume that we are our real selves, and that our choices are really the ones we want to make when, in fact, our acts of free choice are (though morally imputable, no doubt) largely dictated by psychological compulsions, flowing from our inordinate ideas of our own importance.