“A loving partner will never coerce you into giving up your freedom.” — Anoir Ou-Chad 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
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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical… — Moses Mendelssohn 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
“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
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
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
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
Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility;… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
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