Compulsion Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Society forces you to conform.

— Ken Wilber

“Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a steamroller. But…

— Herman Wouk

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

— Blaise Pascal

“... the repression of primitive, violent impulses in favor of civilized behavior was a control mechanism for the more shrewdly aggressive dominators who successfully…

— R. U. Sirius

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is…

— Nathaniel Branden

One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing…

— Bruce Lee

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

— Herbert Gold

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled. The powerful are denied their right to hurt the less powerful.…

— Lierre Keith

“When the first force, social feeling and community expectation, is ignored or affronted, the person concerned will reveal certain aggressive character traits: vanity, ambition,…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

— Martin Luther King, Jr