Top 234 Coercion Quotes & Sayings

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.

Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth.

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.

The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.

The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

Precisely because the State has the monopoly of coercion it can be allowed the monopoly only of coercion. Only if the modern State can be held within a strictly limited agency of duties and powers can it be prevented from regimenting, conquering, and ultimately devouring the society which gave it birth.

The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.

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.

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Voluntaryism is the idea that all human interactions should be free of coercion, based on individual self-ownership. This is in contrast to socialism, which is based on coercion justified by collective ownership.

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.

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

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

We do not find the Savior using force or coercion to accomplish His purposes.

There must be no coercion in matters of faith!

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.

I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go.

Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.

Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control.

Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places.

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

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.

What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.

The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the State. It is by this means that it maintains liberty of expression, security of person and property, genuine freedom of contract, the rights of public meeting and association, and finally its own power to carry out common objects undefeated by the recalcitrance of individual members.

The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia. So to be more precise, government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices.

There is no equality without coercion.

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.