Compelled Quotes

It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

I had to do that. At least once.

There is a difference between motivation and inspiration. Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and don't let go of it until you make it a reality. Inspiration is the reverse-when an idea gets hold of you and you feel compelled to let that impulse or energy carry you along. You get to a point where you realize that you're no longer in charge, that there's a driving force inside you that can't be stopped.

If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

The Tungans, more than the Han, are the enemy of our people. Today our people are already free from the oppression of the Han, but still continue under Tungan subjugation. We must still fear the Han, but cannot not fear the Tungans also. The reason we must be careful to guard against the Tungans, we must intensely oppose, cannot afford to be polite. Since the Tungans have compelled us, we must be this way. Yellow Han people have not the slightest thing to do with Eastern Turkestan. Black Tungans also do not have this connection. Eastern Turkestan belongs to the people of Eastern Turkestan. There is no need for foreigners to come be our fathers and mothers...From now on we do not need to use foreigners language, or their names, their customs, habits, attitudes, written language, etc. We must also overthrow and drive foreigners from our boundaries forever. The colors yellow and black are foul. They have dirtied our land for too long. So now it is absolutely necessary to clean out this filth. Take down the yellow and black barbarians! Long live Eastern Turkestan!

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.