Coercion Quotes - Page 8

• The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as that people of all races and creeds have equal rights, that women should be free from all forms of coercion, that children should never, ever be spanked, that students should be protected from bullying, and that there’s nothing wrong with being gay. I don’t find it at all implausible that these are gifts, in part, of a refined and widening application of reason.

  Steven Pinker

  Bullying, Children, Gay

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• Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that persuasion is far more powerful than coercion when it comes to promoting one's religious views. . . . Not surprisingly, then, large numbers of religious leaders have supported the Supreme Court in its prayer decisions.

  William F. Schulz

  Religious, Prayer, Powerful

  William F. Schulz (1992). “Finding time & other delicacies”

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• As long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if even meaningful.

  Noam Chomsky

  Meaningful, Long, Democracy

  "The Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism". Interviewed with Peter Jay, chomsky.info. July 25, 1976.

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• All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

  Herbert Spencer

  Desire, Slavery, Socialism

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.37, VM eBooks

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• Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Discipline, Mind, Compulsion

  Seventh Public Discussion, Saanen, Switzerland, August 10, 1971.

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• Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Groups, Action

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• Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Bullying, Abuse

  Twitter post from Apr 10, 2014

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• Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals.

  Emma Goldman

  Government, Order, Mind

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• The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The slightly prosperous people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Indians, the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a maximum of law--all made palatable by the fanfare of patriotism and unity.

  Howard Zinn

  Law, People, Support

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.99, Routledge

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• ... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Men, Practice, Levels

  Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.72, Basic Books

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• I believe it is urgent to begin now, before we are constrained by a totally controlled society monitoring limited resources on the planet. Now is the time to establish our extraterrestrial base in freedom; later it may be under the coercion of necessity.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Believe, Space, Limited Resources

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• Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world government. It's inevitable... There's going to be conflict, coercion and consensus. That's part of what will be required as we give birth to the first global civilization.

  Jim Garrison

  Communication, Civilization, World Government

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• 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

  People, Liberty, Libertarian

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on a serious scale—bribery, coercion, sabotage, organized rebellion—all directed at stopping the worst behavior of the world’s most seriously corrupt kings.

  Kristin Cashore

  Kings, Two, Serious

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Way, Guides

  Twitter post from Sep 27, 2011

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• Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.

  Milton Friedman

  Freedom, Mean, Men

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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• Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

  Saint Augustine

  Law, Discipline, Curiosity

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.17, Oxford Paperbacks

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• This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.

  Strom Thurmond

  Government, Temptation, Bills

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• [Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives.

  Theodore J. Forstmann

  Believe, Government, Decision

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• 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

  Sex, Fall, Law

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• The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Moving, Empathy, Political

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• The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Order, Government

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• The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all our hearts, free from government coercion; it does not mandate scouring the public square to forcibly remove all acknowledgement s of the Almighty

  Ted Cruz

  Religious, Heart, Squares

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• Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely.

  Noam Chomsky

  School, Independent, Creating

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Chomsky on Mis-Education”, p.16, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.

  Peter Block

  Believe, Mean, Self

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