Words matter. These are the best Coercion Quotes from famous people such as David Mamet, Murray Rothbard, Reuven Rivlin, Ronny Jackson, Corliss Lamont, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual’s greed for power and the electorates’ desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
In the market, the fittest are those most able to serve the consumers; in government, the fittest are those most adept at wielding coercion and/or those most adroit at making demagogic appeals to the voting public.
Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.
China’s military aggression and coercion towards Taiwan is a threat to U.S. international and regional security interests in the Indo-Pacific.
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one’s true character, to be altogether one’s self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they’re here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
When you’re an outsider, you don’t have loyalties to anyone, so you can be cruelly honest if need be. The more you get inside, the more you are involved in polite networks of professional coercion that make people less honest.
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
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, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning.
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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, our governance will emerge.
The thing that was bad about colonialism, and the thing which is residually bad in some of our aid programs, is that it involved elements of coercion and condescension.
At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars.
The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I’ve said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there’s a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.
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 behavior that benefits everyone.
The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship.
The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.
Far from protecting children, the abuse of Article 8 risks making them pawns – subject to coercion or worse – as part of a criminal’s desperate struggle to stay in Britain.
There’s a marked difference between a sexual predator, coercion tactics, and a man hitting on someone with the intention dating/wanting to get to know a girl he likes, however awkward, unpolished it may be.
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example.
