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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible… — William James Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd! — Adolf Hitler 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
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
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
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
The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use… — Ronald Reagan 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
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
