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compulsion

«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.»
Author: Xenophon | About: Horses | Keywords: compulsion, dancer, observes, Simon, Simon A, spur, whip
«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.»
«Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society»
«Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile»
«All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.»
«If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.»
«Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic»
«A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.»
«Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.»
«Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.»