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Quotes About Coercion

Devemos ser sempre fiéis aos nossos princípios. Tal como no xadrez, não devemos agachar demasiado e fazer jogadas forçadas. A coerção não é vida para ninguém - os paliativos do trabalho são quanto baste.
~ Vladimir Sorokin
Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
~ Philip Yancey
Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them. It requires a civility in which I respect a person's ultimate worth and seek to persuade but not to coerce.
~ Philip Yancey
Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them. It requires a civility in which I respect a person's ultimate worth and seek to persuade but not to coerce. For this reason modern democracy grew out of Christian soil. We must exercise the skill of ethical surgeons in deciding which moral principles apply to society at large and how best to apply them.
~ Philip Yancey
Western powers have learned a related and painful lesson in Iraq and Afghanistan: change imposed by force rarely produces the desired results. Likewise, a faith that matters grows best from the ground up, working its way through society gradually, without coercion.
~ Philip Yancey
Uma palavra feita sobre coação não tem valor- vou ser livre.
~ Philippa Gregory
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
~ Plato
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
~ Plato
La mayor ventaja del Amor es que no puede recibir ninguna ofensa de parte de los hombres o de los dioses, y que ni dioses ni hombres pueden ser ofendidos por él, porque si sufre o hace sufrir es sin coacción, siendo la violencia incompatible con el amor.
~ Plato
Nothing taught by force stays in the soul.
~ Plato
If you don't," she said sweetly, "I'll tell my father you made improper advances to me. He'll have the skin flayed off your back.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I shivered at the notion of a Misfit with empathy or coercion, driven by defective will. Thank Lud, Ariel had never realised his abiities or used them consciously. How much more harm might he have done? Chapter 9, page 97
~ Isobelle Carmody
The freedom to talk with God and of God is being opened by God's joy. It cannot be forced. For true awareness cannot be coercive; it does not come about by either authoritarian pressure or the force of logic. It presupposes liberty. Being aware of God is an art and--if the term may be permitted--a noble game.
~ Jurgen Moltmann
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
~ Dale Carnegie
A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still
~ Dale Carnegie
harsh interrogation techniques.
~ Unknown
The form of coercion that the proletarian vanguard finds itself forced to exercise against counter-revolutionaries is of so fundamentally different a nature from the past forms of oppression, and it is compensated for by so advanced a degree of democracy for the formerly oppressed, that the word dictatorship clashes with that of proletariat.
~ Unknown
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
~ Benjamin Tucker
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
~ Ludwig von Mises
The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The poisonous pedagogy justifies highly abusive methods for suppressing children's vital spontaneity: physical beatings, lying, duplicity, manipulation, scare tactics, withdrawal of love, isolation and coercion to the point of torture. All of these methods are toxically shaming.
~ John Bradshaw
But when the feeling of shame is violated by a coercive and perfectionistic religion and culture—especially by shame-based source figures who mediate religion and culture—it becomes an all-embracing identity. A person with internalized shame believes he is inherently flawed, inferior and defective.Such a feeling is so painful that defending scripts (or strategies) are developed to cover it up. These scripts are the roots of violence, criminality, war and all forms of addiction.
~ John Bradshaw