#coercion

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#bodies #cannot #coercion #emerge #enlightened

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