Coerce Quotes

Coerce Quote of the day

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.

Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but Germany also lost both wars.

All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail

The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!

It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart.

The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.

It has been observed, [that for the federal government] to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised.

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.

But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

At a certain point, you have to convince the actors that you've done the right thing. The way I work, if I can't convince them, I've got to move on. I can't coerce them or browbeat them.

While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement."

Those who love, truly love, can be coerced into nothing.