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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

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. — Mahatma Gandhi

The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers. — Lao-Tzu

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 this
that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot. — Lysander Spooner

[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

We do not find the Savior using force or coercion to accomplish His purposes. — Ezra Taft Benson

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

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion. — Dinesh D'Souza

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

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction. — Joseph Nye

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

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law. — Pat Conroy

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

Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies. — Geoff Mulgan

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

People worship different things; there must be 'no coercion in matters of faith! — Karen Armstrong

Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral. — David Novak

Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example. — Pervez Musharraf

True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights. — J.S.B. Morse

Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds. — Hugo Black

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

[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

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds. — Bob Black

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise - liberty and coercion. — Frederic Bastiat

Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear. — P.D. James

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

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

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

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion. — Alan Keyes

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