Coercion Quotes - Page 6

• There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Principles, Enforcement, Prevention

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• So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia. So to be more precise, government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices.

  Harry Browne

  Agency, Government, Office

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• Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of bureaucrats so long as we bask in their friendly smile. But it is a dangerous temptation. Today politics may be our friend and tomorrow we may be its victims.

  Owen D. Young

  Mean, Power, Government

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• 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

  Men, Law, Would Be

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• Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

  Philip K. Howard

  Father, Government, Common

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• Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Reality, Government, Political

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• But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Unique, Self

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.98, Open Road Media

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• God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by sweet enticement. He always acts with unfailing respect for the freedom and independence that we possess.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Sweet, Long, Independence

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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• The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

  John Stott

  Christian, Humble, Hands

  John R. W. Stott (1985). “Involvement: Social and sexual relationships in the modern world”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved by it.

  Eve Ensler

  Believe, Careers, Political

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• 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

  Done, Want, Outcomes

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• Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Communication, Development, Internet

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.54, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

  Matthew Fox

  Inspirational, People, Pleasure

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• Indeed, some secularists are so worried about Christianity, they think Christians are about as dangerous as Muslim terrorists. They get really worried when we don't invest our lives in this-worldly concerns. They look on us as unpredictable free agents. When we reject their relativism and make absolutist spiritual claims, they look at us as nervously as they would a terrorist with a suicide bomb strapped to his back. Of course, Christians are not into coercion in any form. But it is very hard to persuade secularists of that.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Suicide, Spiritual

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Those are possibilities for technology, which don't tend to be used, because of the way power is concentrated. There are all kinds of possibilities, including for coercion. In China, technology is used to control and coerce. Here too, to an extent, but not to that extent.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Way, Kind

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• 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

  Children, Play, Matter

  "Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away". Book by Rebecca Goldstein, 2014.

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• Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Liberty, Conditions

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• Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Use, Conviction, Satyagraha

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race quotas substitute for diversity, and suicide is prescribed as 'death with dignity.' Political discourse has become completely corrupted. The reason is that if you tell people directly that you want to raise their taxes, transfer their wealth, count them by skin color, or let doctors kill them, most will object. Statists know this and therefore are obliged to obfuscate.

  Theodore J. Forstmann

  Suicide, Responsibility, Compassion

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• We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion.

  Daniel Webster

  Order, Law, Rights

  Daniel Webster (1821). “A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England”, p.91

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• People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.

  Mark Dever

  Ideas, Differences, People

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• There is no equality without coercion.

  Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

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• Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government coercion is a form of theft. Its supporters attempt to disguise its essential character by claiming that democratic procedures give it legitimacy, but this justification is specious. Theft is theft, whether it be carried out by one thief or by a hundred million thieves acting in concert. And it is impossible to found a good society on the institutionalization of theft.

  Robert Higgs

  Character, Mean, Compassion

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• Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.

  P. D. James

  Creativity, Atmosphere, Despotism

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• It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Desire, Matter, Duty

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