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«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.»
Author: Bruce Barton
(Congressman)
| About:
Loneliness,
Progress,
World
| Keywords:
compel, occasionally
«No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Freedom,
Happiness,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
accord, accordance, compel, conception, e'en, enjoys, everyone else, fit, For each, Happy ending, i.e., infringe, infringing, I E, Others The, pursue, reconciled, reconciles, reconciling, similar, The Happy Ending, welfare, workable
«Men, quite ordinary men, will compel children to look on while their mothers are raped. In pursuit of political aims men will submit their opponents to long years of unspeakable anguish»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
aims, anguish, compel, look on, opponents, raped, submit, unspeakable
«SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death. Augustine Nicholas relates that a poor peasant who had been accused of sorcery was put to the torture to compel a confession. After enduring a few gentle agonies the suffering simpleton admitted his guilt, but naively asked his tormentors if it were not possible to be a sorcerer without knowing it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accused, agonies, Augustine, compel, deemed, forerunner, forerunners, naively, Nicholas, prototype, prototypes, simpleton, simpletons, sorcerer, sorcerers, sorcery, The Suffering, tormentor
«Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
commensurate, compel, competitive, considerable, contemporary, exhibits, phenomena
«I never mean (unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it) to possess another slave by purchase; it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by slow, sure, and imperceptib»
«Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.»
«Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel»
«Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
compel, good sense
«No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
chain, compel, disbelieve, disbelieved, disbelieves, disbelieving, iron, outward
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