Compelled Quotes - Page 17

• Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.

  Laozi

  Peace, War, Men

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• The draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society no one should be compelled to take up arms, or be forced to kill or risk being killed... But who can blame prospective volunteers from doubting that there is a threat from Iraq? The Bush administration has yet to make a persuasive argument to that effect.

  Sheldon Richman

  Iraq, Volunteer, Risk

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• Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume knob and the tone control all at the same time - creating harmonics that no human being should be able to hit.

  Steve Vai

  Music, Creating, Bars

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• When we stopped to rest and Tony tried to figure out what was wrong with his compass, I asked him what he thought it was about orchids that seduced humans so completely that they were compelled to steal them and worship them and try to breed new and specific kinds of them and then be willing to wait for nearly a decade for one of them to flower.

  Susan Orlean

  Flower, Orchids, Waiting

  Susan Orlean (2000). “The Orchid Thief”, Ballantine Books

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• For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same system when it was German. I am compelled to think that this is due to the power of labels; these people like whatever is labelled ‘Left’ without examining whether the label has any justification.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, People, Labels

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.40, Routledge

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• Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient.  They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . . We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see

  Boyd K. Packer

  Spiritual, Expression, Agency

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• By life's very nature we are compelled to find and maintain balance, or be subject to the symptoms of the lack thereof.

  Wes Fesler

  Balance, Symptoms, Subjects

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• Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.

  Carlton Pearson

  Fear, Belief, Blind

  Carlton Pearson (2010). “God Is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu...: God Dwells with Us, in Us, Around Us, as Us”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual.

  Aleister Crowley

  Country, Character, Journey

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• My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to
  make that choice.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Reality, Wife

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• Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No ruler could ever command men to fashion the first tools, first use fire, invent the telescope and the steam engine, or compose the Iliad. Cultural values do not arise by direction of higher authorities. They cannot be compelled by dictates nor called into life by the resolution of legislative assemblies.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Fashion, Men, Fire

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• See with what force yon river's crystal stream
  Resists the weight of many a massy beam.
  To sink the wood the more we vainly toil,
  The higher it rebounds, with swift recoil.
  Yet that the beam would of itself ascend
  No man will rashly venture to contend.
  Thus too the flame has weight, though highly rare,
  Nor mounts but when compelled by heavier air.

  Lucretius

  Science, Men, Rivers

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• Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Reading, Writing, Science

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• We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn.

  George Washington

  Action, Should, Risque

  George Washington (1997). “Writings”

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• When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.

  Meister Eckhart

  Thinking, Kingdoms, Riches

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Loneliness, Men, People

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• Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

  Thucydides

  People, Justice, Attention

  Thucydides (1970). “Athens at war”, Putnam Aeronautical Books

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• We are compelled to work more hours per day, receive less pay per hour, pay more for what we buy, and recieve less for what we sell. The consequence is that we must work harder and more hours per day than we should, and in the end have less than what is due to us as our part of the advantages, conveniences and opportunities resulting from advancing civilization.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Civilization

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• I don't want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock just become so dominant that people literally decline in their lives. That's not my motivation. I have a lot of cool things to do other than sitting around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and being compelled to demonize them. That is a joke. Elect Trump if you want that. If you want somebody who has a heart for people, who can fight for people, and can fix these things, then there are a couple other people, and I believe I'm the best one.

  Jeb Bush

  Couple, Motivation, Believe

  "Is White House taking responsibility for US casualty in ISIS raid?". October 26, 2015.

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• I do know that there is a difference between artists who are career-driven and artists who have a calling and are just compelled to make music, compelled to perform live, and the business isn't the reason they're doing it. In fact, there isn't really a reason. You just do it.

  Ian Astbury

  Artist, Careers, Differences

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• I think in Pakistan there is already democracy and no dictatorship. And recently a few years ago, the Pakistani people stood against the dictatorship of [Pervez] Musharraf and compelled him to resign. So now it is the people's democracy so I don't think any chance that the people should stand against this administration. Pakistan's situation is different than Egypt. They cannot be compared.

  Shahbaz Bhatti

  Thinking, Egypt, Years

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• We're still promoting stupid wasteful behavior in agribusiness - everything from ethanol production for cars to genetically modified crops. In commerce just about everything we do politically is in the service of WalMart and the systems tied to it. In transportation, we could, for instance, have compelled General Motors to produce railroad rolling stock as a condition of their bail-out, but we didn't do that. Instead, we're chasing the phantom of electric cars - and, believe me, we are going to be mortally disappointed how that works out.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Stupid, Believe, Work Out

  Source: www.terrain.org

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• How do we explain for example the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Conakry? Those very powers that swindled and occupied them, in the face of the serious situation of social emergency, have not even had the capacity to send doctors there. In some cases they have sent in militaries instead because that is what they are compelled to do. They have had to send military to do it because they do not even have any doctors with the willingness to risk their lives in order to help those people that are precisely paying for the consequences of years of colonization.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Military, Doctors, Epidemics

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• [Barack] Obama was reaching a point [with Syria bombing] where he might not have been able to carry it off.He was losing support internally, and was compelled to send the vote to Congress, and it looked as if he was going to be defeated, which would have been a very serious blow to his presidency, to his authority.

  Noam Chomsky

  Blow, Support, Might

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements of the country that have always been there but were kind of marginal to the political system, for example, religious extremists.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Religious, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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