It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
“... in short, as a man, he would have wished to coerce me into obedience;” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd! — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it seeks to progressively coerce others… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and… — William Martin Copy Share Image
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Nothing trains and teaches so powerfully as love. Love attracts. it does not coerce. If the aim of parents is to teach… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your… — James Hunter Copy Share Image
40% of homicides go unsolved. You know, it's not a very good record. And, also, 95% of convictions in America come from… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
My life is simple, my food is plain, and my quarters are uncluttered. In all things, I have sought clarity. I face… — Yi Sun-sin Copy Share Image
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Evangelists have absolutely no desire to physically or emotionally coerce anyone. In a sense, we are like doctors: we have a duty… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
This is an effort to have government coerce, force speech and behavior. And it's being pushed and advocated by the gay community.… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion,… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are… — Anthony of Sourozh Copy Share Image
“I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else's. I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
At a certain point, you have to convince the actors that you've done the right thing. The way I work, if I… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
There is a great difference, then, between "power" and "authority." Power refers to one's ability to coerce others (through physical, economic, or… — Joshua Meyrowitz Copy Share Image
Those are possibilities for technology, which don't tend to be used, because of the way power is concentrated. There are all kinds… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury raised cautions against mass media, especially the television, which dumb down human sensibilities and coerce everybody's thoughts… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
![“It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are shocking words.] It ought not to be one of the forces influencing this or that state. The Church ought to be, if you will, just as powerless as God himself, which does not coerce…” quote by Anthony of Sourozh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ef9/anthony-of-sourozh-50914_characteristics_it-seems-to-me-and-i-am-personally-convi_1558955.jpg)
