Compulsion Quotes

• Cuando veas que el comercio se hace, no por consentimiento, sino por coacción - cuando veas que para producir, necesitas obtener permiso de hombres que no producen nada - cuando veas que el dinero fluye hacia aquellos que comercian, no con bienes, sino con favores - cuando veas que los hombres se enriquecen más por chanchullos y por tirones que por el trabajo, y tus leyes no te protegen contra ellos, sino que los protegen contra ti - cuando veas que la corrupción es recompensada y la honestidad se convierte en un autosacrificio - puedes saber que tu sociedad está condenada.

  Ayn Rand

  Honesty, Sacrifice, Men

  Ayn Rand (2011). "Ayn Rand Colección de novelas", p.1448, Penguin

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• En la medida en que uno niega lo que es, es poseído por lo que no es, las compulsiones, las fantasías, los terrores que acuden a llenar el vacío.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Rejection, Void, Fantasy

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1973). “The lathe of heaven”

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• Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Plato, Educational

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.349, Penguin

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• I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.

  David Guterson

  Writing, Inspire, Firsts

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• Tengo conmigo dos dioses, Persuasión y Compulsión.

  Temístocles

  Hypnosis, Two, Persuasion

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, p. 894, 1993.

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• If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  States, Consent, Ifs

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• Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Spiritual, Prayer, World

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• Un hombre sólo es verdaderamente ético cuando obedece a la compulsión de ayudar a toda vida que pueda ayudar, y se abstiene de dañar a todo lo que vive.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Leadership, Men, Able

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). "Civilización y Ética"

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

  Walter Gropius

  Spiritual, Art, Products

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• The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

  John Dos Passos

  Strong, Men, Fog

  John Dos Passos (1956). “The Theme is Freedom”

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• The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle.

  Joan Didion

  Escribir, Intentar, Doe

  Joan Didion (2013). "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", p.98, Zola Books.

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• The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Share, Inexplicable

  Joan Didion (2013). "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", p.98, Zola Books.

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• any compulsion tries to justify itself.

  Joan Didion

  Trying, Inexplicable, Justify

  Joan Didion (2013). "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", p.98, Zola Books.

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• The compulsion of fate is bitter.

  Christoph Martin Wieland

  Fate, Bitterness, Bitter

  "Oberon". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, Ch.V, p.60, 1780.

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• Tan dulce compulsión yace en la música.

  John Milton

  Music, Sweet, Lying

  'Arcades' (1645) l. 68

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• La disciplina correcta consiste, no en la compulsión externa, sino en los hábitos de la mente que conducen espontáneamente a actividades deseables en lugar de indeseables.

  Bertrand Russell

  Discipline, Mind, Willpower

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.26, Routledge

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• Todas las acciones humanas tienen una o varias de estas siete causas: el azar, la naturaleza, las compulsiones, el hábito, la razón, la pasión, el deseo.

  Aristotle

  Naturaleza, Filosofía, Pasión

  "Retórica". Libro de Aristotle. Libro I, 1369a.5,

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• We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

  Chauncey Wright

  Ignorance, Science, Able

  Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.76, A&C Black

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• I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.

  Pete Seeger

  Thinking, Would Be, Want

  "When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. January 28, 2014.

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

  E. Stanley Jones

  Praying, Feels, Quietness

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• Ningún rastro de esclavitud debe mezclarse con los estudios del hombre nacido libre. Ningún estudio, realizado bajo coacción, permanece arraigado en la memoria.

  Plato

  Memories, Plato, Men

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.264

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• Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Writing, Safe, Polite

  Carta de declinación del Premio Pulitzer de ficción (1926)

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• Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many things you do because you reluctantly feel you should or must? Watch closely. Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.

  Vernon Howard

  Mind, Example, Watches

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• The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion.The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small & inadequate land, had two utterly useless deities, who refused to leave the island and insisted on staying; and their names were Poverty and Inability.

  Heródoto

  Powerful, Greatness, Land

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• There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.

  Jonathan Raban

  Mom, Angel, Sides

  Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial

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