#coercion

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

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

#bodies #cannot #coercion #emerge #enlightened

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#agreed #coercion #i #kind #majority

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

— Garrett Hardin

#coercion #create #produce #responsibility #social

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

— Christopher Lasch

#become #coercion #irreducible #justice #love

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

— Pervez Musharraf

#example #force #islam #personal #preached

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one. ↗

— Pervez Musharraf

#changed #coercion #ever #force #forcibly

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds. ↗

— Bob Black

#application #coercion #law #official #succeeds

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation. ↗

— Kelly Bryson

#motivation #psychology #motivational

All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here. ↗

— James Jones

#eddie-welsh #fear #social-coercion #warfare #anger