quotes about Coercion
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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.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
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.
-- African SpirSource : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 59), 1937.
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The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.
-- Anders ChydeniusSource : "Thoughts on the Natural Rights of Servants and Peasants". Book by Anders Chydenius, 1778.
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Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.
-- Augusto BoalSource : Augusto Boal (2000). “Theater of the Oppressed”, p.39, Pluto Press
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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.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
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.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
-- Christopher Lasch -
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.
-- Eric S. Raymond -
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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.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.
-- Friedrich August von HayekSource : "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part II: "Freedom and the Law". Chapter 9: "Coercion and the State", 1960.
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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.
-- Garrett Hardin -
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
-- Garrett Hardin -
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
-- Garrett Hardin -
Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.
-- Geoff Mulgan -
Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.
-- George F. KennanSource : George F. Kennan (2013). “Encounter with Kennan: The Great Debate”, p.208, Routledge
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Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.
-- Hannah Arendt -
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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.
-- Herman Kahn -
A law is not a law without coercion behind it....
-- James A. Garfield -
Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.
-- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau -
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.
-- Joseph Campbell -
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Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.
-- Joseph Nye -
There must be no coercion in matters of faith!
-- Karen Armstrong -
That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on a serious scale—bribery, coercion, sabotage, organized rebellion—all directed at stopping the worst behavior of the world’s most seriously corrupt kings.
-- Kristin Cashore -
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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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.
-- Mike MasonSource : Mike Mason (1985). “Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle”, Multnomah
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Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation.
-- Murray RothbardSource : Murray N. Rothbard (2004). “Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition”, p.1256, Ludwig von Mises Institute
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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.
-- Noam Chomsky -
Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.
-- Paramahansa Yogananda -
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Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.
-- Pervez MusharrafSource : FaceBook post by Pervez Musharraf from Dec 26, 2011
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Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.
-- Philip K. Howard -
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr -
This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.
-- Strom Thurmond -
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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.
-- Wilhelm von Humboldt -
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.
-- William Matthews -
Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.
-- Dinesh D'Souza -
There is no equality without coercion.
-- Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora -
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I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go.
-- Michael Hersch -
Coercion. The unpardonable crime.
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1938). “Pilgrimage”
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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.
-- George Leef -
The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion.
-- Siyyid `Ali Muhammad ShiraziSource : "The Persian Bayán". Book by Siyyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi (Unity II, Chapter 16), 1848.
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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.
-- Leonard Read