Coercion Quotes

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

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

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.

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.

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

Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example.

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.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

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

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.

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

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

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

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.