Coercion Quotes

138 Coercion quotes by 102 unique authors

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the… — Hannah Arendt
Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral. — David Novak
All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion. — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of… — B.F. Skinner
Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world,… — Donella Meadows
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. — Robert McNamara
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal,… — John Perry Barlow
Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example. — Pervez Musharraf
The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it… — Ronald Reagan
Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens. — Edgar A Suter
Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to… — Derrick Jensen
What has been the effect of religious coercion? To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. — Thomas Jefferson
Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one… — Thomas Jefferson
Fundamental premise that all are equal under and before the law and all are entitled to the equal protection and the equal benefit of the… — George Stamatis
Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges… — Immanuel Kant
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring… — Albert Einstein
The idea of painless, nonthreatening coercion is an illusion. Fear is the inseparable companion of coercion, and its inescapable consequence. If you think it your… — John Holt
We who believe that children want to learn about the world, are good at it, and can be trusted to do it with very little… — John Holt

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