Quotes About Coercion

First, when directing your people, use persuasion, not coercion.5 Instead of making pronouncements, make requests. Offer suggestions and ideas. Don't dictate and demand; instead, advocate and recommend.

artificial order on civilization is with brute force. The only way to make something unnatural appear to be natural is to force everyone to think alike. If

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

I conclude that if nations follow their past ways, then, because of the speed of world communication of separate views, each society will have to exert more and more coercion to bring about a forced agreement as to what constitutes the real world and its values. Those coerced agreements will differ from nation to nation, from culture to culture. The coercion will destroy individual freedom. We will bring about our own destruction through the clashes caused by different world views.

Children were strapped down, drugged, mocked, and institutionalized. We addressed their issues with pharmacology rather than empathy, and through coercion rather than care.

Okay, so what happened to you? For real?" I was born to indifferent parents and like a lot of children, I fell prey to an abusive male authority figure who taught me that violence is a legitimate means of coping and then last night, one of our fellows drugged me and coerced me into confessing to a boatload of crimes. "I lost my phone.

It is in fact nothing short of a miracle," Albert Einstein wrote, "that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. . . . It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and sense of duty.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now," without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

I will give you more pain than you can imagine. Your brains will leak out of your ears, and your bowels out of your ass. I will cause that to happen without leaving a mark, and every cop here will swear you died of natural causes.

bribes often worked where procedure or threats wouldn't.

War is about: compelling a choice on someone who would not otherwise make it.

I think if you're going to abuse someone, you really have to convince them of two things. First, you have to normalise what you're doing, convince them that it's not that bad. And the second thing is to convince them that they deserve it in some way.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

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

If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

hallmarks of the syndrome—a powerful individual's coercing a captive into submission, and even the demonstration of affection—have now been identified in cases of dependent children, battered wives, prostitutes, prisoners of war, and victims of hijackings.

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.

It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.

The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

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

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.