Advancement Quote by Mary Parker Follett

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

— Charles Koch

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

— James A. Garfield

What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error…

— Thomas Jefferson

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is…

— Rudolf Rocker

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

We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

“The coercion which a government must still use … is reduced to a minimum and made as innocuous as possible by restraining it through…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

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

— Nathaniel Branden

The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.

— Anders Chydenius

The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like…

— Hannah Arendt

“The world is based on power. Power is simple. It is the ability to get others to do one’s will. Nothing more, nothing less—but…

— L.E. Modesitt Jr