Coercion Quotes
138 Coercion quotes by 102 unique authors
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The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all our hearts, free…
— Ted Cruz
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion,…
— Ludwig von Mises
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There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can…
— Mike Mason
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Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from…
— Mustafa Akyol
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Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion,…
— Benjamin Tucker
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So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia.…
— Harry Browne
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The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.
— Leonard Nimoy
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Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are…
— Eric S. Raymond
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Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.
— Joseph Nye
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Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or…
— Eve Ensler
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The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power,…
— John Stott
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Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.
— Joseph Campbell
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Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
— Bob Black
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We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.
— Ron Paul
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured,…
— Gloria Steinem
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Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated…
— Nathaniel Branden
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Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.
— Philip K. Howard
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