Coercion Quotes

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

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ` invasion, but a minimum of pain.

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

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one`s true character, to be altogether one`s self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

To many, the word coercion implies arbitrary decisions of distant and irresponsible bureaucrats; but this is not a necessary part of its meaning.

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

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.

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they`re an explicit acknowledgment that what you`re doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don`t want to do, an important instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever authority happens to be thrust over them.

Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reach­ing the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the mem­bers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his sub­ordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.