#coercion

Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government. ↗

— Carl Cohen

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#boredom #coercion #experiment #government #justice

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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#break #coercion #dialectic #logic #means

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

— Kelly Bryson

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#motivation #psychology #motivational