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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.


Noam Chomsky


#barriers #coercion #given #history #human

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


#exchange #free #here #ideas #mediums

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.


William Godwin


#argument #because #coercion #could #doubt

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


Garrett Hardin


#agreed #coercion #i #kind #majority

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


Garrett Hardin


#coercion #create #produce #responsibility #social

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.


Friedrich August von Hayek


#desirability #essential #free #free society #justification

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.


Joseph Lancaster


#attainment #being #coercion #encouragement #forfeiture

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.


Christopher Lasch


#become #coercion #irreducible #justice #love

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


Pervez Musharraf


#example #force #islam #personal #preached

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.


James A. Garfield


#coercion #law #without






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