“A loving partner will never coerce you into giving up your freedom.” — Anoir Ou-Chad Copy Share Image
“Always try coercing others proves one doesn't want to change himself. (Suka maksain pendapat adalah bukti seseorang tak siap berubah).” — Toba Beta 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
It has been observed, [that for the federal government] to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever… — Alexander Hamilton 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
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
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
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
“... in short, as a man, he would have wished to coerce me into obedience;” — Charlotte Brontë 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
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
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
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
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
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
I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man… — Margaret Sanger 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. — Mahatma Gandhi 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 ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others. — Edward Abbey 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
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
Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they… — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not… — Aldrich Ames 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
A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image