Quotes about coerce (16 Quotes)


    One must ... aim to stimulate, educate, coax, coerce, cajole shock when necessary but, above, all to entertain. No newspaper, and no newspaperman, should ever be ashamed to entertain.

    Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.

    attempted to browbeat and coerce' the second grand jury to change its decision not to indict DeLay so there would be no public record of a rejection.

    A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

    Before the first indictment you tried to coerce a guilty plea from Tom DeLay for a misdemeanor, stating the alternative was indictment for a felony which would require his stepping down as Majority Leader of the House of Representatives.


    Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

    Participants are able to come by and stuff money into a jar that will be provided at each booth, and the cook-off contestants are able to do anything they want to raise money, ... They can coerce people, they can go into the crowd, sell things or do anything they want to do to raise money.


    On the contrary, ... The Pentagon report shows that there is every reason to believe that China intends either to coerce Taiwan or to attack it. There is no third option.

    This is a harsh and ill thought out policy based on the flawed logic that making families destitute and threatening to take their children into care will coerce them into going home.

    She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

    My hope is that military planning will be designed to coerce him or replace him and will not simply punish him and leave him in charge of building the weapons, ... That's not a victory. That's a defeat.

    The Zimbabwean government has detained innocent people to coerce others to surrender. This is a gross abuse of the criminal justice system.


    Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. (J.




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