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Source: The world's most famous court trial: State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes; complete stenographic report of the court test of the Tennessee anti-evolution act at Dayton, July 10 to 21, 1925, including speeches and arguments of attorneys

“God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by sweet enticement. He always acts with unfailing respect for the freedom and independence that we possess.”

Way Long Suffering Acting Sweet Independence Chiefs Gentle Persuasion Coercion Confrontation Starks Long Suffering Enticement Solicitation

Book:That We Might Have Joy

Source: That We Might Have Joy

“Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.”

Government Involved Elements Coercion

Author:Dinesh D'Souza

“Consider the sexual harassment which continually occurs between a secretary and a boss . . . while objectionable to many women, [it] is not a coercive action. It is rather part of a package deal in which the secretary agrees to all aspects of the job when she agrees to accept the job, and especially when she agrees to keep the job. The office is, after all, private property. The secretary does not have to remain if the 'coercion' is objectionable.”

Ifs Doe Action Jobs Deals Accepting Office Aspect Agree Property Boss Secretary Packages Coercion Private Property Harassment

Author:Walter Block

“The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.”

Want Heart Government Force Love You Fists Coercion Gloves Velvet

Author:Alan Keyes

“All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.”

Social Groups Scales Intimate Cooperation Coercion Social Groups

Book:Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

“The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never achieve through social coercion or governmental action. We serve the world by showing it something that it is not, namely, a place where God is forming a family out of strangers.”

World Shows Action Social Church Creative Achieve Offers Strategy Stranger Coercion

Author:Stanley Hauerwas

“Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth of a free society. The Socialist demagogues know that as well as I, but they maintain the myth of the virtues of the majority, because their very scheme of life means the perpetuation of power.”

Knows Wells Mean Individual Virtue Birth Authority Mass Majority Myth Anarchy Schemes Socialist Dependence Coercion Free Society Life Means

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.”

States Use Given Force Violence Particular Areas Organization Contribution Anarchy Revenue Monopoly Payment Coercion Territorial Use Of Force

Book:The Anatomy of the State

Source: The Anatomy of the State

“I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.”

“Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.”

Men Trying Faces Pay Focus He Man Taxes Ethics Gun Victim Blame Coercion

Author:Stefan Molyneux

“Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.”

Heard Authority Statements Seduction Persuasion Coercion

Author:Herman Kahn

“A law is not a law without coercion behind it.”

Law Behinds Coercion Intriguing Coerce

Author:James A. Garfield

“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.”

Self Character Acting Subjects Capacity Determined Coercion True Freedom True Character

Author:Corliss Lamont

“Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of bureaucrats so long as we bask in their friendly smile. But it is a dangerous temptation. Today politics may be our friend and tomorrow we may be its victims.”

May Mean Long Government Today Accepting Power Dangerous Danger Tomorrow Victim Temptation Friendly Carrie Expanding Implications Coercion Interference Bureaucrats

Author:Owen D. Young

“Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.”

Form Perfect Theatre Artistic Coercion

Book:Theater of the Oppressed

Source: Theater of the Oppressed

“There’s one thing that’s been 'learned' maybe from Tunisia and Egypt that I think is a mistake. And that is that the existing ruler has to resign. He doesn’t have to resign. You take all the supports out from under him; he falls. No matter what he wants to do. This is the distinction in the analyses between nonviolent coercion in which he has to resign, but he’s forced into it, and disintegration when the regime simply falls apart. There’s nobody left with enough power to resign.”

Thinking Want Matter Enough Fall Left Mistake Support One Thing No Matter What Analysis Distinction Regimes Rulers Egypt Falling Apart Coercion Disintegration Tunisia

Author:Gene Sharp

“Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.”

Men Mean Political Freedom Liberty Fellows Absence Fellow Man Coercion Political Freedom

Book:Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.”

Mean Government Freedom Liberty Opposites Compulsion Coercion

Book:Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays

Source: Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays

“[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display the least interest in libertarianism. Those on the receiving end of coercion don't quibble over their coercers' credentials. If you can't pay or don't want to, you don't much care if your deprivation is called larceny or taxation or restitution or rent. If you like to control your own time, you distinguish employment from enslavement only in degree and duration.”

“The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the State. It is by this means that it maintains liberty of expression, security of person and property, genuine freedom of contract, the rights of public meeting and association, and finally its own power to carry out common objects undefeated by the recalcitrance of individual members.”

Mean Persons States Courses Individual Common Liberty Rights Security Objects Expression Members Function Property Meetings Libertarian Genuine Contracts Association Coercion Undefeated

Book:Liberalism

Source: Liberalism

“Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren.”

Ifs Men War Rights Thousand Defense Civil War Fifty Southern Coercion Brethren Tennessee Single Man

Author:Isham G. Harris

“There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.”

Ifs Thinking Matter Inspiration Motivation Moral Tendencies Intolerance Recipes Coercion Disagreement

Author:Michael Sandel

“There must be no coercion in matters of faith!”

Matter Coercion

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.”

People Way Believe Mean Self Together Force Interest Community Steps Fundamentals Sells Core Subtle Willingness Currency Economist Invitations Self Interest Coercion Scarcity

Author:Peter Block

“The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving.”

“Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely.”

Way Wells School Turns Roles Support Creating Independent Structure Rewards Educated Thinker Coercion Well Educated

Book:Chomsky on Mis-Education

Source: Chomsky on Mis-Education

“The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all our hearts, free from government coercion; it does not mandate scouring the public square to forcibly remove all acknowledgement s of the Almighty”

Firsts Heart Doe Government Able Religious Liberty Protect Worship Remove Squares Amendments Almighty First Amendment Coercion Mandates Worship God Acknowledgement Religious Liberty

Author:Ted Cruz

“Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.”

Men Politics Capture Coercion

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.”

Way Country Whole Government Action Order Standards Gold Court Prison Oppression Customs Collapse Inflation Policemen Coercion Grim Executioners Gold Standard

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.”

Humans Force Drug Doctors Tricks Compare Torture Breasts Witch Spells Magician Coercion Unleashed Bribery Witch Doctors

Book:Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle

Source: Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle

“Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.”

Moral Integrity Intellectual Critics Rage Believer Coercion Immaturity Moral Integrity

Author:Mustafa Akyol

“Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.”

Ifs Essentials Capitalism Ideals Instruments Scales Planning Dictatorship Enforcement Free Market Coercion Large Scale Central Planning

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.”

Pain Atheism Minimum Justified Invasion Coercion

Author:Benjamin Tucker

“The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.”

Inspirational Helping Use Force Abuse Threat Bullying Domination Coercion Intimidating Use Of Force

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.”

Knows Know How Communication Development Internet Mediums Programming Coercion Coordinator

Book:The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

Source: The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

“Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.”

Growth Evolution Compulsion Coercion Accelerate

Book:General Principles and Merits of Yogoda, Or, Tissue-will System of Body and Mind Perfection, and the Highest Technique of Concentration and Meditation

Source: General Principles and Merits of Yogoda, Or, Tissue-will System of Body and Mind Perfection, and the Highest Technique of Concentration and Meditation

“Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.”

Want Done Ability Attraction Outcomes Payment Coercion

Author:Joseph Nye

“Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved by it.”