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.
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.
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example.
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.
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
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.
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.
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.
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.
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.
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
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.
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