Coercion Quotes

Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren.

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

Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily will do what the tyrants think they should do.

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.

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

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.

Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

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.

Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.

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

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

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

We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

There must be no coercion in matters of faith!

History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

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

For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.

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

[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives.

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.

Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.

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

Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.

Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds.

Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.

[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

The free market is constantly under attack from those who believe that they know how to make the world a better place with properly administered doses of state coercion.

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

There is no equality without coercion.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.

Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.