Top Coercion Quotes
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
Corliss Lamont
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
Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.
Pervez Musharraf
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
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Theodor Adorno
Pervez Musharraf 
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True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
Corliss Lamont 
58% of people like this quote
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
58% of people like this quote
Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.
Pervez Musharraf
57% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Theodor Adorno
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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
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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
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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
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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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