Quotes About Coercion

Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?

She threatened a Negro man who worked for her father that if he didn't take (have sex with) her she would swear he tried rape. He had no choice, except that he quit working for them. And from then until she finished high school, she managed it several times with other Negroes

monopolio cada vez mayor del uso de la fuerza

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

A man convinced against his will, is of his own opinion still,'

Page 134 Florence Nightengale is speaking to William Monk Of course. If you know the truth, it takes a gentler and perhaps a wiser woman than Purdence Barrymore not to speak it aloud. She did not understand the arts of diplomacy. I fear that perhaps I do not either. The sick cannot wait for flattery and coercion to do their work.

And all this to be done on pain of death, and confiscation of house and goods, unless within the limited time they turned Roman catholics.

The motivation of grace will always bear greater fruit than the coercion of demand.

As long as a single center has a monopoly on the use of coercion, one has a state rather than a self-governed society.

It did not take a great deal of native genius for Cathoair to figure out that they wanted something from him.

In despair, she gave up on coercion and tried to manipulate him psychologically. When he behaved badly, she turned her back to him and began walking out of the room. The threat of abandonment made him panic. He stopped whatever he was doing and ran after Stephanie for a hug and reassurance. Nim learned to sign "sorry," and did so often.

Not every wealthy man might choose a public life, but anyone who chose public life must be a wealthy man. Corruption, coercion and predation ensured the determined could acquire fortunes. Augustus, while still a teenager, had amassed enough money to support a private army. Ambitious men gathered the support of peers and bestowed patronage on numerous clients. Patronage, indeed, was at the heart of the whole system.

Se ha combatido mucho por la libertad, en nombre de ella o en busca de ella y, sin embargo, nadie sabe cómo definirla porque ese estado de ausencia de coerción o restricción impuesta sobre nosotros no ha existido nunca y no puede existir. Si alguna sociedad intentara lograr un orden de perfecta libertad saldría de la historia para recaer en el orden natural, con todas sus limitaciones y riesgos.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

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.

This is how the Russians have operated for years - they get the goods on people and then they can get you to do what they want. This is how someone like Donald Trump could be turned into a Russian asset.

Anyone who wants to see a very free world does not want government. I also don't like being extorted or being aggressed against by others.

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

La manipulación mediante la culpa («Si fueras un buen cónyuge, harías esto por mí»), no es un lenguaje del amor. La coerción mediante el miedo («Hazlo o lo lamentarás»), es algo ajeno al amor.

That leads me to the second truth: Love is a choice and cannot be coerced. Dave and Mary were criticizing each other's behavior and getting nowhere. Once they decided to make requests of each other rather than demands, their marriage began to turn around

and I wont be coaxed round as if I was a baby or a puppy. If I cant have kindness, I'll have independence.

Religion is just mind control.

The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent, theoretic, and intellectually consequent: and with such a nature, struggling in the bonds of a narrow teaching, hemmed in by a social life which seemed nothing but a labyrinth of petty courses, a walled-in maze of small paths that led no whither, the outcome was sure to strike others as at once exaggeration and inconsistency.