Coercion Quotes - Page 2

The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.

Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.

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

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.

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

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.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

There must be no coercion in matters of faith!

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

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

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

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.

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.

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.