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• What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Technology

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• We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Delight, Holiness, Pleasure

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.666, Discovery House

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• Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.

  Edward Norton

  Creativity, Ambition, Sometimes

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• Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Attachment

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.61, Advaita Ashrama

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• Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by which it is prov'd, that the literal Sense does in reality authorize the stirring up Persecutions against the Cause of Truth, and that an erroneous Conscience has the same Rights as an enlighten'd Conscience.

  Pierre Bayle

  Reality, Rights, Atheism

  Pierre Bayle, John Kilcullen, Chandran Kukathas (2005). “A philosophical commentary on these words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23: "Compel them to come in, that My house may be full"”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.

  Martin Luther

  Writing, Beer, Loss

  Martin Luther (1967). “Selected Writings of Martin Luther: 1520 523”

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• The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ, against Christians, and against anyone who holds to a sincere belief in God, in spite of the fact that it is going to cost them tens of millions of dollars to do it. They are driven to 'make a statement' regardless of the consequences.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Wish

  "History as a System". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, "Man has no nature", 1962.

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• When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself. For by attending to this thou wilt quickly forget thy anger, if this consideration is also added, that the man is compelled; for what else could he do? or, if thou art able, take away from him the compulsion.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Men, Errors

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book X, 30,

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• Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Discipline, Mind, Coercion

  Seventh Public Discussion, Saanen, Switzerland, August 10, 1971.

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• Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

  George Will

  Passion, Speech, Censorship

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• You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do it under the compulsion that makes any artist the victim he is, but they loathe the process of sitting down trying to turn thoughts into reasonable sentences.

  Harper Lee

  Hate, Writing, Artist

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• We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Happiness, Made

  'The Three Graves' (1798) pt. 4, st. 12

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• The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself.

  Edward Betts

  Hate, Lying, Deep Love

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• I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.

  Jan Morris

  Spiritual, Believe, Sexuality

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• The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

  Edna Ferber

  Helping

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• There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.

  Walter Cronkite

  Heart, Blood, Ties

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• The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Military, Struggle, Agitation

  "he Guillotine At Work : Twenty Years of Terror In Russia". Book by Grigoriĭ Petrovich Maksimov, p. 38, 1940.

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• A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

  Karl Kraus

  Truth, Lying, White

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy.

  Jean Baudrillard

  America, Important, Demand

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.91, Verso

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• I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Believe, Law

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• there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to “do well” in the world instead of living well.

  Rolf Potts

  Insanity, World, Rich

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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• The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

  Plato

  Children, Childhood, Mind

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• One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man's reason can a movement succeed.

  Samuel Gompers

  Men, Excellence, Relief

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• the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Discipline, Long, Clubs

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1912). “A Montessori Mother”

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