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Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted

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

Health Philosophical Health Care Length Compulsion Reckless Laborers Length Of Life

Book:Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

“I found myself compelled, like this weird, shameful compulsion to draw cute animals.”

Found Animal Draws Cute Compelled Compulsion Shameful

Author:Lynda Barry

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

Doe Matter Accepted Priests Compulsion Accord Celibacy

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.”

Should Found Grows Morality Maturity Compulsion True Freedom

Book:Encounters with silence

Source: Encounters with silence

“Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.”

Mind Habit Discipline Activity Desirable Willpower Compulsion Undesirable Habits Of Mind

Book:On Education

Source: On Education

“Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.”

Trying Mean Feelings Certain Habit Busy Acknowledge Tension Manipulate Compulsion Doing Nothing

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“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.”

Men Helping Able Leadership Morality Ethics Ethical Shrinks Compulsion Serving Others Nonconformity Animal Compassion Ethical Values

Book:Civilization and Ethics

Source: Civilization and Ethics

“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.”

People Song Known Decline Compulsion Aggravation

Author:Pete Seeger

“Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.”

Needs Real Social Interest Imagination History Influence Materials Conscious Crowds Fabric My Imagination Compulsion Social Life Indirect

Book:Selected Essays: 1934-1943

Source: Selected Essays: 1934-1943

“How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.”

Hands Fall Sound Attitude Our Lives Wind Sunset Strings Gestures Echoes Weary Compulsion Dolls Furious Ravel

Author:William Faulkner

“What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity.”

People Ifs Action Political Decision Results Attitude Liberty Opposites Property Evolve Ownership Polls Compulsion Political Action Levity Barricades Ownership And Control

Book:Skinny Legs and All

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone.”

Thinking Humans Problem Gone Conditions Guilt Protection Inward Compulsion Discontent Uneasiness

Book:The Winter of our Discontent

Source: The Winter of our Discontent

“This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.”

“Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment.”

Writing Feelings Understanding Communication Please Mere Trust Me Compulsion Follow Me Deep Feeling

Book:Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism

Source: Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism

“He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?”

Men Has Beens Feelings Past Lying Sound Talking Listening Bed Normal Summer Clothes Ordinary Get Up Peaceful Evening Making Love Compulsion Summer Evening

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street.”

Men Want Writing Self Shows Desire Guy Quality Streets Exposure Compulsion Masochism

Author:James Jones

“The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think I'm right.”

Thinking Believe Wells Kind Stills Eye Hate Song I Believe Sleep I Hate Dancing Impulse Titles Excellent Silver Compulsion Dinosaurs Verbs Nouns Daggers Good Words Perfectly Good Repulsion

Author:Rob Sheffield

“Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching him as a drowning woman might clutch another person to save her life. Don't don't don't don't leave me. DON'T LEAVE ME. As in animal copulation the frenzy is to be locked together not out of sentiment or choice but physical compulsion. As if bolts of electric current ran through both their bodies and would only release them from each other when it ceased.”

“We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.”

People Giving Years Ideas Shows Seems Order Next My Own Crazy Century Mad Prepared These Days My Time Compulsion Sample Dynamite Gunpowder Time Capsules

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.”

Mind Humans Age Sleep Half Known Doubt Disease Victim Instruments Chaos Average Ill Awake Sensations Human Mind Void Suggestions Compulsion Adjustment Unimaginable

Book:The Haunted Bookshop

Source: The Haunted Bookshop

“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we have to act against the grain of our natural compulsions. This requires clear decisions. Because it does not happen by itself, it is in a way "unnatural" or "supernatural" . . . (we) simply have to cut loose now and then, and in the process . . . make mistakes.”