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This experience sufficiently illuminates the truth that free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless,
— Augustine Of Hippo
Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.
— Stefan Molyneux
Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.
— Philip K. Howard
Free Will was a vacuum, a negative space. It was the absence of coercion, the absence of compulsion, the absence of agony.
— Ian Tregillis
The prophets preach ... that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.
— Matthew Fox
Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.
— Milton Friedman
The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is thisthat it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot. — Lysander Spooner
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[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
— Philip Yancey
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
— Garrett Hardin
Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.
— George F. Kennan
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
— Robert McNamara
The man who is not permitted to own is owned.
— George Santayana
Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
— Christopher Lasch
Coercing a woman out of a burka is as bad as coercing her into one. It's not about the burka. It's about the coercion.
— Arundhati Roy
Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves
— Martin Heidegger
I want a world where men live free from fear and coercion.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
— James A. Garfield
As long as a single center has a monopoly on the use of coercion, one has a state rather than a self-governed society.
— Elinor Ostrom
Liberty'.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
There is no equality without coercion.
— Gonzalo Fernandez De La Mora
Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.
— Stefan Molyneux
Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places.
— Judith Sargent Murray
History is the same story with different costumes.
— Stefan Molyneux
Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.
— Augusto Boal
When coercion of any kind is used in the interests of the Christian message, the message itself is corrupted.
— Lesslie Newbigin
Coercing attitude drains your strength.
— Toba Beta
It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
— Franz Grillparzer
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
— Garrett Hardin
Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.
— Leonard Nimoy
To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
As Plato: 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.
— Rebecca Goldstein
No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.
— Lysander Spooner
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Leftism is that impulse that wants to establish coercion and call it community. Apply
— Douglas Wilson
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
Those in government are especially susceptible to the corruption of power, because government is institutionalized coercion.
— George H. Smith
All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.
— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it. — James A. Garfield
Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.
— Murray Rothbard
Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example.
— Pervez Musharraf
Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.
— Murray Rothbard
Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.
— Mahatma Gandhi
People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.
— Jeffrey Tucker
Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.
— Norm MacDonald
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
— Garrett Hardin
Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Social cohesion is more efficient than coercion.
— Patrick McCarty
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[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.
— George Will
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
— Herbert Spencer
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality.
— Albert Einstein
Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.
— Pervez Musharraf
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
You don't belong to him, you belong to me." "That's insane too!" "Baby, you told me so your fuckin' self." "Sexual coercion.
— Kristen Ashley
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Absolutes are Coercion.Change is absolute. — Allen Ginsberg
No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation.
— Thomas Pynchon
Those who love, truly love, can be coerced into nothing.
— Vironika Tugaleva
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
— Murray N. Rothbard
No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.
— J.S.B. Morse
There are two principles between which there can be no compromise - liberty and coercion.
— Frederic Bastiat
Coercion. The unpardonable crime.
— Dorothy Richardson
Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny.
— Charles Forbes Rene De Montalembert
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.
— Frederic Bastiat
The individual has to awaken his intelligence, not through any form of discipline, resistance, compulsion, coercion, but through freedom.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.
— Murray Rothbard
If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.
— J.S.B. Morse
The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.
— Ludwig Von Mises
No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Imagination cannot be coerced, it has a mind of its own.
— Marty Rubin
Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.
— Ludwig Von Mises
The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion.
— Siyyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi
It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.
— Kelly Bryson
I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go.
— Michael Hersch
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.
— Joseph Campbell
Evil is a confession of inadequacy
— Stefan Molyneux
The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
— Anthony Gregory
The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.
— Anders Chydenius