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#compulsion

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My compulsion is to create things.


Julian Schnabel


#create #things

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.


Albert Schweitzer


#anything #assist #compulsion #ethical #help

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.


Pete Seeger


#decline #discuss #else #i #known

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


#any #asked #compulsion #especially #glad

...she grasped the terrible truth that love can never be compelled, from man, from sprite, from beast; that one who loves, however she longs for requital, however long she waits, may receive in return the reverse of what she gives, the dark side of the moon.


Thomas Burnett Swann


#love #reciprocity #requital #love

Reading is not optional.


Walter Dean Myers


#inspirational #reading #inspirational

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.


Ivan Illich


#actually #always #american #attitude #believe

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


Chauncey Wright


#compulsion #ignorance #nothing #receive #resist

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.


Xenophon


#any #beauty #compulsion #dancer #does

The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The liberal has faith in the individual – faith that he can be persuaded by rational means to beliefs compatible with social good.


Harold Edmund Stearns


#compulsion #conscience #faith #individual #liberal






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