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.
We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery never trying to coerce the other into meeting our own needs.
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.
While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement. "
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.
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!
I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.
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.
It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart.
A man's 'original and natural right' to make all contracts that are 'intrinsically obligatory,' and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions.
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.
The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open ourselves up to different types of linguistic experience, which could include sorting and structuring words in unconventional ways: by constraint, by sound, by the way words look, and so forth, rather than always feeling the need to coerce them toward meaning.
