Coercion Quotes - Page 3

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

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

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

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.

Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control.

Those are possibilities for technology, which don't tend to be used, because of the way power is concentrated. There are all kinds of possibilities, including for coercion. In China, technology is used to control and coerce. Here too, to an extent, but not to that extent.

I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go.

The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

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

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

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

There is no equality without coercion.

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

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.

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

Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth of a free society. The Socialist demagogues know that as well as I, but they maintain the myth of the virtues of the majority, because their very scheme of life means the perpetuation of power.

To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a sort of training with the help of constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make it an unnatural result, devoided of lastind value.