All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Aeschylus

Just Lack Utter Destroy

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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

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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.

Virginia Satir

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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

American Any Asked Compulsion

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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

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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Karl Marx

Capital Compulsion Health Laborer

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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.

James Thurber

Man Troubled Dog wish Happy

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Martin Buber

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Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

Duke Ellington

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Imoh Umoren

Knowledge Is acquired Under compulsion No hold

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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie

John Milton

Sweet Compulsion Music

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Aeschylus

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

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.

Virginia Satir

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

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

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Karl Marx

James Thurber

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Martin Buber

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

Duke Ellington

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Imoh Umoren

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie

John Milton

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" Quotes and Sayings About compulsion

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Aeschylus

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

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.

Virginia Satir

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

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

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Karl Marx

James Thurber

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Martin Buber

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

Duke Ellington

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Imoh Umoren

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie

John Milton

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