Compel Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Compel Quotes from famous persons: Andrew Vachss, Pat Buchanan, Rosemary Mahoney, Lactantius, Robert Christgau. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Compel Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

Andrew Vachss

In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.

Pat Buchanan

I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it’s chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe.

Rosemary Mahoney

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

Lactantius

One way I judge music is whether it compels me to listen to it.

Robert Christgau

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

Virgil

It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.

Ernestine Rose

HB2 discriminates against fellow citizens because of who they are. This law directly challenges the legitimacy of the identity of transgender persons and then compels them to deny it every time they use a public restroom.

Ted Olson

The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law will not interfere to compel him. The master must do his own flogging, as in the case of an ox or a horse.

Lysander Spooner

It’s not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it’s the law.

Sonia Sotomayor

The first paragraph of my book must get me my reader. The last paragraph of a chapter must compel my reader to turn the page. The last paragraph of my book must ensure that my reader looks out for my next book.

Ashwin Sanghi

The divine flame of thought is inextinguishable in the Filipino people, and somehow or other it will shine forth and compel recognition. It is impossible to brutalize the inhabitants of the Philippines!

Jose Rizal

To advise is not to compel.

Anton Chekhov

I’m not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.

Ira Sachs

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Plato

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

B. R. Ambedkar

The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.

Jean Piaget

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

James M. Barrie

Honesty compels me to say that I am not a socialist. But so what?

Emmanuel Macron

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

Josephus Daniels

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

John H. Reagan

I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.

The Edge

I don’t even compel my wife to wear a mangalsutra or a bindi.

Sayaji Shinde

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Charles Stanley

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Alain Badiou

God’s presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

Victoria Woodhull

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

Thomas Jefferson

We started our company out of a need to survive, but we’ve built it based on a mission not only to help others survive but to prosper. Because of that, our purpose – to empower people to live more beautiful lives – compels us to keep community at our core.

Richelieu Dennis

Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.

Anthony Lewis

No matter how much you’ve done before, you wonder if there will be a light at the end of this particular tunnel. It’s the nature of the beast, and it’s a part of what compels us. Every movie is a new lesson you learn making your way through it.

R. J. Cutler

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Thomas Carlyle

Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.

Sergei Lavrov

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive ‘stress’ of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

Francesca Lia Block

I love video games. I’m also slightly in awe of them. I’m in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I’m in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we’ve ever invented has quite done before.

Tom Chatfield

You want the story to be about something, have some deeper meaning, but there is also an emotional, almost instinctual, element, which is, does this story seize some part of you and compel you to get to the bottom of it?

David Grann

The eggers destroy all the eggs that are sat upon, to force the birds to lay fresh eggs, and by robbing them regularly compel them to lay until nature is exhausted, and so but few young ones are raised.

John James Audubon

Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who’s running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.

Hale Irwin

What compels the Hindu right’s volcanic reaction to Valentine’s Day? Some of its members have protested that the holiday is the product of a ‘rotten imported culture‘ from the West.

Elizabeth Flock

What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to stuff our houses with things we don’t need. Perhaps this is one thing art can do: create a new aesthetic, one of austerity.

Cornelia Parker

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Margaret Mead

My sadness compels me to hide it so that people won‘t judge me. Seeking help would have blown my cover. Meanwhile, my mania convinces me that it’s making me fun so I’ll want to dive further into it. Seeking help would’ve ruined that good time.

Chris Gethard

Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don’t believe media compel distraction, but I think it’s clear that they afford it.

Howard Rheingold

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao… Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

Frank Gehry

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Anais Nin

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

Marco Rubio

Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.

Wilfrid Laurier

Climbing is more of an art than a sport. It’s the aesthetics of a mountain that compels me. The line of a route, the style of ascent. It is creative.

Reinhold Messner

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

Bruce Barton

Since we replaced the compulsory military draft with an all-volunteer force in 1973, our nation has been making decisions about wars without worry over who fights them. I sincerely believe that reinstating the draft would compel the American public to have a stake in the wars we fight as a nation.

Charles B. Rangel

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

Orison Swett Marden

The energy that comes when you compel people to dance stays with you your whole career – whether you are playing to 100,000 people at Glastonbury or 1,000 kids in a club.

Steven Van Zandt

A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see – so you have some incentive to run fast.

Raghuram Rajan

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

Douglas Hurd

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