Coercive Quotes

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Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control… — Judith Lewis Herman
It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is… — Mary Parker Follett
In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist… — Jesus Huerta de Soto
The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion, if you believe… — Robert Nozick
[There is] a strange split in thinking common to those on the religious left, who are quick to denounce the profit motive and commercialism. Yet,… — Robert Sirico
When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government currencies and has… — James Rickards
Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything… — Jane Mayer
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to… — Noam Chomsky
A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive… — Noam Chomsky
..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only because… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul. — Mary Parker Follett
Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of the coercive status… — Ludwig von Mises
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the… — William Jennings Bryan
Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition… — John Yoo
When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform… — Hugo Black
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. — Robert H. Jackson
After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation… — Bob Beauprez
I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive. — Bernardine Dohrn
Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! — Camille Paglia
Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an… — Adrienne Rich

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