#coercion

Absolutes are Coercion. Change is absolute. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

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We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

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Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his door and then turn you away, rather his home address is hard to find. The government handcuffs you so they don't have to shoot you trying to escape. And so on. ↗

— Tyler Cowen

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A law is not a law without coercion behind it. ↗

— James A. Garfield

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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. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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

— Pervez Musharraf

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The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The liberal has faith in the individual – faith that he can be persuaded by rational means to beliefs compatible with social good. ↗

— Harold Edmund Stearns

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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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

— Bob Black

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Until one nation ceases its attempts to dominate another, there will never be true freedom. Until one religion relinquishes its quest to prove its god superior to that of another, there shall never be world peace. We will never truly prosper or experience lasting harmony, until we refrain from preaching the gospel of our own moral values and our personal preferences by forcing it upon others. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

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