Coercive Power Quotes
- The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which… — Friedrich August von Hayek
- When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy… — P.J. O'Rourke
- 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
- [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
- Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul. — Mary Parker Follett
- Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government… — Michael Ignatieff
- Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of… — George Washington