#coercion

Absolutes are Coercion. Change is absolute. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#change #coercion #change

We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#conformity #conventionality #creation #diversity #expansion

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

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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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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The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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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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Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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

— Pervez Musharraf

#example #force #islam #personal #preached

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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