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No Gulag, evidently, can deter the advocates of state power from believing in their own virtue and in the morality of the power they exercise. We are all Hobbesians now. Virtue is presumed to reside in the state. Its reliance on compulsion is seen as fulfilling, not undermining, morality. Our communicators, oddly employed in the private sector, work tirelessly to ensure that state control is maintained, our taxes stay high, the official message is promoted. The people know, and can only know, a tiny fraction of what Leviathan does, and what they know is what these partisans tell them. – Tom Bethel	added by Normando 2 years ago
If, indeed, anyone should think that, in the communistic society, man must still remain under some form of compulsion in order to, do what is right, and leave off what is wrong, he had better give up communism at once and abandon all hope for the human race. – Johann Most	added by anonymous 2 years ago
He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid. – Epictetus	added by Normando 3 years ago
Lack of consent results from forcible compulsion or circumstances under which at the time of the act of intercourse, the complainant clearly expressed that she did not consent to engage in such act and a reasonable person in the defendant's situation would have understood the complainant's words and acts as an expression of lack of consent to such act under all the circumstances. – Judge James Burke	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We will move as expeditiously as possible, but we have to see what witnesses are going to make themselves available and what witnesses are going to require compulsion. – Adam Schiff	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Senior White House officials will move as expeditiously as possible, but Senior White House officials have to see what witnesses are going to make themselves available and what witnesses are going to require compulsion. – Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and the total state. That this statement is still widely disputed only illustrates the degree to which malignant fantasy can capture the imagination of intellectuals. – Lew Rockwell	added by Normando 4 years ago
We live in a culture in which, some would say, we're slaves to photographing everything we see. It's a compulsion we have, the Depalo app fits perfectly into that culture. – Paul Levinson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
China has set up a deadly demographic trap for itself, condemning itself to low or no growth for years to come, regardless of how many babies they can, using persuasion or compulsion, get young women to bear. – Steven Mosher	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's becoming increasingly obvious that people spend too much time on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and struggle to control the compulsion, i don't believe that closing these accounts will affect our business whatsoever, and this is the overwhelming view of our pub managers. – Tim Martin	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Man dwells between passion and compulsion – RAMANA PEMMARAJU	added by anonymous 6 years ago
As long as you’re taking advice from others, you are not integrated nor total - every move will be out of compulsion, only a half-hearted attempt; but the moment you act from within, you move into a totally different dimension, you enter a new space of a self-propelled & motivated, driven by no-mind state. – RAMANA PEMMARAJU	added by anonymous 6 years ago
As long as you’re taking advice from others, you are not integrated, total - every move will be out of compulsion, only a half-hearted attempt; but the moment you act from within, you move into a totally different dimension, you enter a new space of a self-propelled & motivated no-mind state. – RAMANA PEMMARAJU	added by anonymous 6 years ago
The compulsion to remain beautiful forever has made women more uglier than ever. Remember its not about imbibing other cultures but accepting one's own nature is what makes one more graceful! Relish in your uniqueness! – Ramana Pemmaraju	added by Ramana Pemmaraju 6 years ago
Contract work for textiles has been growing exponentially because of the growing popularity of readymade garments and fast fashion, even in India, many leading global brands are outsourcing to homeworkers, even if they are unaware of it. Homeworkers are the most vulnerable in the chain, yet they bear a lot of risks because the economic compulsion is so strong. – Shalini Sinha	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Many leading global brands are outsourcing to homeworkers, even if they are unaware of it. Homeworkers are the most vulnerable in the chain, yet they bear a lot of risks because the economic compulsion is so strong. – Shalini Sinha	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Eighty-five to 90 percent of my clients that come in annually have a sexual addiction or compulsion.For the first time in the human race, you can make love to your computer, smartphone, or tablet anytime, anywhere, and the human brain was not designed for this, it’s cocaine on steroids. It’s touch deprivation, so you don’t need to go to your spouse or your significant other for that connection, which is paramount to cultivating relationships. – Jeremy Boberg	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic. – Julie Burchill	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. – John Milton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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. – Niccolò Machiavelli	added by anonymous 10 years ago
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There shall be no compulsion in religion. – Quran 2:263, Quran 2:263	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue. – Dinesh D’Souza	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. – Plato, The Republic	added by anonymous 13 years ago

No Gulag, evidently, can deter the advocates of state power from believing in their own virtue and in the morality of the power they exercise. We are all Hobbesians now. Virtue is presumed to reside in the state. Its reliance on compulsion is seen as fulfilling, not undermining, morality. Our communicators, oddly employed in the private sector, work tirelessly to ensure that state control is maintained, our taxes stay high, the official message is promoted. The people know, and can only know, a tiny fraction of what Leviathan does, and what they know is what these partisans tell them.

– Tom Bethel

added by Normando
2 years ago

If, indeed, anyone should think that, in the communistic society, man must still remain under some form of compulsion in order to, do what is right, and leave off what is wrong, he had better give up communism at once and abandon all hope for the human race.

– Johann Most

added by anonymous
2 years ago

He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.

– Epictetus

added by Normando
3 years ago

Lack of consent results from forcible compulsion or circumstances under which at the time of the act of intercourse, the complainant clearly expressed that she did not consent to engage in such act and a reasonable person in the defendant's situation would have understood the complainant's words and acts as an expression of lack of consent to such act under all the circumstances.

– Judge James Burke

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We will move as expeditiously as possible, but we have to see what witnesses are going to make themselves available and what witnesses are going to require compulsion.

– Adam Schiff

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Senior White House officials will move as expeditiously as possible, but Senior White House officials have to see what witnesses are going to make themselves available and what witnesses are going to require compulsion.

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and the total state. That this statement is still widely disputed only illustrates the degree to which malignant fantasy can capture the imagination of intellectuals.

– Lew Rockwell

added by Normando
4 years ago

We live in a culture in which, some would say, we're slaves to photographing everything we see. It's a compulsion we have, the Depalo app fits perfectly into that culture.

– Paul Levinson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

China has set up a deadly demographic trap for itself, condemning itself to low or no growth for years to come, regardless of how many babies they can, using persuasion or compulsion, get young women to bear.

– Steven Mosher

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's becoming increasingly obvious that people spend too much time on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and struggle to control the compulsion, i don't believe that closing these accounts will affect our business whatsoever, and this is the overwhelming view of our pub managers.

– Tim Martin

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Man dwells between passion and compulsion

– RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by anonymous
6 years ago

As long as you’re taking advice from others, you are not integrated nor total - every move will be out of compulsion, only a half-hearted attempt; but the moment you act from within, you move into a totally different dimension, you enter a new space of a self-propelled & motivated, driven by no-mind state.

– RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by anonymous
6 years ago

As long as you’re taking advice from others, you are not integrated, total - every move will be out of compulsion, only a half-hearted attempt; but the moment you act from within, you move into a totally different dimension, you enter a new space of a self-propelled & motivated no-mind state.

– RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by anonymous
6 years ago

The compulsion to remain beautiful forever has made women more uglier than ever. Remember its not about imbibing other cultures but accepting one's own nature is what makes one more graceful! Relish in your uniqueness!

– Ramana Pemmaraju

added by Ramana Pemmaraju
6 years ago

Contract work for textiles has been growing exponentially because of the growing popularity of readymade garments and fast fashion, even in India, many leading global brands are outsourcing to homeworkers, even if they are unaware of it. Homeworkers are the most vulnerable in the chain, yet they bear a lot of risks because the economic compulsion is so strong.

– Shalini Sinha

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Many leading global brands are outsourcing to homeworkers, even if they are unaware of it. Homeworkers are the most vulnerable in the chain, yet they bear a lot of risks because the economic compulsion is so strong.

– Shalini Sinha

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Eighty-five to 90 percent of my clients that come in annually have a sexual addiction or compulsion.For the first time in the human race, you can make love to your computer, smartphone, or tablet anytime, anywhere, and the human brain was not designed for this, it’s cocaine on steroids. It’s touch deprivation, so you don’t need to go to your spouse or your significant other for that connection, which is paramount to cultivating relationships.

– Jeremy Boberg

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.

– Julie Burchill

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

– John Milton

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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.

– Niccolò Machiavelli

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

– Aristotle

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There shall be no compulsion in religion.

– Quran 2:263, Quran 2:263

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.

– Dinesh D’Souza

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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

– Plato, The Republic

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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