Coercion Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Men, Gun, Focus

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• Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

  Herman Kahn

  Seduction, Persuasion, Authority

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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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• Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

  Augusto Boal

  Perfect, Theatre, Artistic

  Augusto Boal (2000). “Theater of the Oppressed”, p.39, Pluto Press

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• Every human being shall see in each and all of his fellow-men a hidden divinity... that every human being is made in the likeness of the Godhead. When that time comes there will be no need for any religious coercion; for then every meeting between one man and another will of itself be in the nature of a religious rite, a sacrament.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Religious, Communication, Men

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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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• Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Guilt, Principles

  "Rogers v. Richmond, 365 U.S. 534". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 20, 1961.

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• Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Teaching, Men, Degrees

  "The Liberal Tradition in European Thought". Book by David Sidorsky, p. 73, 1971.

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• Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

  Hannah Arendt

  Real, Evil, Sound

  Hannah Arendt, Jerome Kohn (2006). “Between Past and Future”, p.148, Penguin

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• There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.

  Mike Mason

  Doctors, Drug, Witch

  Mike Mason (1985). “Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle”, Multnomah

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• Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.

  Mustafa Akyol

  Integrity, Intellectual, Immaturity

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• Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Essentials, Enforcement, Planning

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality.

  Tibor R. Machan

  Equality, Order, Law

  Tibor R. Machan (1995). “Private Rights and Public Illusions”, p.81, Transaction Publishers

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• Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Subsidies, Efficiency

  Murray N. Rothbard (2004). “Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition”, p.1256, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind were the product of a spontaneous effort on the part of individuals; government substitutes coercion for voluntary action.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Pain, Men, Effort

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Caring, Government, Jail

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Nov 07, 2013

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• [P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

  George Will

  Top Down, Tissues, Politics

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