Quotes about Compulsion

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.

How do they and their fellows, the Jesuits,19 exclaim upon poor Calvin, for sometimes using the hard word of compulsion, describing the effectual, powerful working of the providence of God in the actions of men; but they can fasten the same term on the will of God, and no harm done!

Laughter is the only free emotion-the only one that can't be compelled.

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

So dear is sin to a man that he will rather part with a child than with a lust

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I really only take roles that I love and that I have some kind of innate compulsion or need to tell that story. Although it's almost like I have no control over it. It's like they choose me.

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.