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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.