#coercion

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

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

— Pervez Musharraf

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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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Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. ↗

— Robert McNamara

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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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It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation. ↗

— Kelly Bryson

#motivation #psychology #motivational

All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here. ↗

— James Jones

#eddie-welsh #fear #social-coercion #warfare #anger

God's love for us is uncoerced and so freely given that it does not demand a response. But so freely is it given that it creates freedom in the recipient, so that our response is not one of obligation or duty, nor the returning of a favor, but uncoerced love. ↗

— Mark Galli

#freedom #god-s-love #freedom

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

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

— Garrett Hardin

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