Compulsion Quotes - Page 10

• I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.

  Richard Simmons

  Exercise, Class, Careers

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers' desires when they are interested only in the royal family gossip. But even the most objective, serious newspaper in the world designs the way in which the reader could or should think. That's unavoidable.

  Umberto Eco

  Thinking, Gossip, Design

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• ...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

  Karl Marx

  Doe, Realms, Labor

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole”, p.954, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Tom Robbins

  Decision, Barricades, Property

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.138, Bantam

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• The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges from the preconsciousness of babyhood and simply finds himself here, in it, in the world. That experience alone astonishes some people. What is all this - what is the world? And what are we? From the beginning of humanity some have been under a compulsion to ask these questions, and have felt a craving for the answers. This is what is really meant by any such phrase as 'mankind's need for metaphysics.'

  Bryan Magee

  Philosophy, Real, Writing

  "Confessions of a Philosopher". Book by Bryan Magee, 1997.

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• Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Coercion

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• The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading others by compulsion. It so functions today to an extent exasperating to the authoritarians - which is why they want to get rid of it.

  Leonard Read

  Thinking, People, Want

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• The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot be abandoned to the discretion of some men, however competent and clever they may deem themselves. It is necessary to restrict its application. This is the task of the laws.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Clever, Men, Law

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who favor freedom are stigmatized as greedy?

  John Stossel

  Government, People, Favors

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• The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, Abuse, Normal

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• Government planning always involves compulsion.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Planning

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• It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right. Those records came out in spite of their flaws. And because of their flaws they were good.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Records, Busy, Flaws

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.

  Socrates

  Soul, Mind, Study

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• For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of people who write feel the same way.

  T. R. Pearson

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.

  John Hodgman

  Fun, Nerves, Unfortunate

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• No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

  Francois Fenelon

  Hypocrite, Mind, Conviction

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• War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints in burning villages, dying men, weeping wives and children, and needs to be seen by those who so eagerly clamour for it at every opportunity. The sight of that fearful phantom, girt round with skulls, chains reeking with blood and desolation and ruin in its track, would stop their eagerness for it, unless under real compulsion.

  Moncure D. Conway

  Children, Real, War

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• I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman, Editors, News

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• I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Individual Effort, Magic

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• Without sounding cliché, music is like air. It provides for me. I don't necessarily look for what I can get out of it. It's a compulsion. I've always gotten out of it everything.

  Ishmael Butler

  Air, Looks, Music Is

  "Inhabiting Shabazz Palaces". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2014.

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• A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as a gratuitous orgy of pedantry. Doubtless, compulsions to intellectual tidiness express themselves prematurely at times, and excessively at others, but a good descriptive taxonomy, as Darwin found in developing his theory, and as Newton found in the work of Kepler, is the mother of laws and theories.

  Raymond Cattell

  Mother, Law, Intellectual

  "Intelligence: Its Structure, Growth and Action". Book by Raymond Cattell (p. 61), 1987.

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• I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

  Lee Kelly

  Writing, Thinking, Paper

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Cutting, Simple, Men

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• What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on the part of gendarmes, hangmen and penal courts, it is self interest.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Self, Fellow Man

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property; because as there is no other known method of compulsion, or of abridging man's natural free will, but by an infringement or diminution of one or other of these important rights, the preservation of these, inviolate, may justly be said to include the preservation of our civil immunities in their largest and most extensive sense.

  William Blackstone

  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  Sir William BLACKSTONE, Samuel Warren (1856). “Blackstone's Commentaries systematically abridged and adapted to the existing state of the law and constitution, with great additions. By Samuel Warren”, p.101

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