#coercion

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

— Pervez Musharraf

#example #force #islam #personal #preached

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#alike #coercion #find #fruitless #itself

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

#coercion #enjoy #even #mutually #pretend

Coercing attitude drains your strength. ↗

— Toba Beta

#coercion #drain #life #strength #attitude

God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there. ↗

— John Ortberg Jr.

#faith #freedom #god #love #spirituality

More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two readers (three, to be exact). So I’d like to take a moment and say thanks mom, dad, and kidnap victim I keep chained in the basement. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#books #coercion #dad #family #gratitude

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

— Theodor Adorno

#break #coercion #dialectic #logic #means

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

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