Quotes About Coercion

I have built my organization upon fear.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

People were not getting back what they wanted for their sold labor. Taxes grew and services shrank. Prices rose and quality decayed. Everywhere people felt used and betrayed and coerced and cheated.

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

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

Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

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.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

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.

Putin je milosrdný autokrat. Nechce vás zabít - pokud ho k tomu nedonutíte.

Locke, Montesquieu, many of the philosophers of the European Enlightenment, and the Founders, among others, knew that the history of organized government is mostly a history of a relative few and perfidious men co-opting, coercing, and eventually repressing the many through the centralization and consolidation of authority.

We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.

We all pay dearly when people respond to our values and needs not out of a desire to give from the heart but out of fear, guilt, or shame. Sooner or later, we will experience the consequences of diminished goodwill on the part of those who comply with our values out of a sense of either external or internal coercion.

All the humans looked up at the ceiling. ART said, And this is your idea of being helpful. I said, "This is my idea of the opposite of being helpful. I am here against my will and you are going to regret that.

No believing Christian can be coerced beyond Holy Writ

symbolic violence

No nation permits herself to be coerced to the one crime that man cannot pardon. It is of her own accord that she hastens towards it; her chief has no need to persuade, it is she who urges him on.

Where 'doing one's job' cannot be directly linked to the highest spiritual and cultural values--although it may be felt to be more than mere economic coercion--the individual today usually makes no attempt to find any meaning in it. Where capitalism is at its most unbridled, in the United States, the pursuit of wealth, divested of its metaphysical significance, today tends to be associated with purely elemental passions, which at times virtually turn it into a sporting contest.

Für die Politik ist das entscheidende Mittel: die Gewaltsamkeit.

Power is the ability to coerce others to do what they would not otherwise do.

C??ng b?c là d?u hi?u ch? không ph?i ngu?n g?c c?a b?t công.