Coercion Quotes

“Those who love, truly love, can be coerced into nothing.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.

— Anders Chydenius

A law is not a law without coercion behind it…

— James A. Garfield

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Coercing attitude drains your strength.”

— Toba Beta

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

— Franz Grillparzer

Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

— Augusto Boal

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.

— John Steinbeck

“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.”

— Ludwig von Mises

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

— Anthony Gregory

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion.

— Siyyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

— James A. Garfield

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

— Garrett Hardin

Vaccines are great and masks have a place, but state coercion is not where America wants to go.

— Miranda Devine

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

“In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by…

— Gordon S. Wood

The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal…

— Walter E. Williams

What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Having conditions forced on him, with the threat of destruction clearly the cost of resist­ance, does not constitute a fair definition of…

— Robert J. Norrell

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

— Herbert Spencer

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the…

— Hannah Arendt

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in…

— Walter Lippmann

“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.”

— Larken Rose

That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on…

— Kristin Cashore

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar…

— Hannah Arendt

The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the…

— Stanley Hauerwas

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

Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of…

— Owen D. Young

Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples…

— Donella Meadows

Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right…

— Charles A. Beard

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We…

— Albert Einstein

We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race…

— Theodore J. Forstmann

Indeed, some secularists are so worried about Christianity, they think Christians are about as dangerous as Muslim terrorists. They get really worried…

— Mark Dever

“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other. Is uniformity…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Many professionals have to sign gagging clauses or face the sack if they speak out. The social worker and therapist was familiar…

— Beatrix Campbell

“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of…

— George Reisman

“It's WW2 and there are wage controls in place. Instead of health care, companies decide to offer employees shoes. Having absorbed those…

— Jeffrey Tucker

The idea of painless, nonthreatening coercion is an illusion. Fear is the inseparable companion of coercion, and its inescapable consequence. If you…

— John Holt

Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of…

— James Monroe