Coercion Quotes

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation.

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.

Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

Precisely because the State has the monopoly of coercion it can be allowed the monopoly only of coercion. Only if the modern State can be held within a strictly limited agency of duties and powers can it be prevented from regimenting, conquering, and ultimately devouring the society which gave it birth.

Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.

Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are backed by the police force. All of us know this to be true under communism, but it is equally true under our own brand of welfare statism.

Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

We do not find the Savior using force or coercion to accomplish His purposes.

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

There must be no coercion in matters of faith!

Ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.

The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will,
nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.