Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

To advise is not to compel.

I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.

I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.

If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

I don't really want to control anyone, to be honest.

I just want to keep doing what I feel.

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.

Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

The world can only be free when men are content in themselves and each draws from his own fountain.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

We do not believe in having happiness imposed upon us.

Without respect of my private will, you will give me that counsel you think best.

Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

A wise man will see to it that his act always seems voluntary and not done be compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

The American people cannot be driven to do anything that they do not want to do. The way to promote happiness is by moral suasion and not by force.

We will not be forced to take any position by outside forces. Would you tolerate such a thing?

It is never easy to cleanly distinguish freedom and duty, consent and bondage, choice and compulsion.

I like to sit and talk to someone, and if they want to write about it, OK. But when it's a chore, I have a choice. There's a choice for all of us, including me.