Lawful Compulsion

Famous quotes containing the words lawful and/or compulsion:

“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)