Definition of Compulsion

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Definition of Compulsion
	Compulsion The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force. Related Definitions: Act, Being, By, Compelled, Compelling, Constraint, Driving, Force, Moral, Of, Or, Physical, State, Subjection, The, To, Urging

Compulsion Quotations

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

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Plato

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

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

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.
Alfred Hitchcock

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

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.
Karl Rahner

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
E. Stanley Jones

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
Ivan Illich

Compulsion Translations

compulsion in German is Zwang
compulsion in Latin is coactum

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