Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.
We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.
Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.
To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.
Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.
Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.
Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation.
Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are backed by the police force. All of us know this to be true under communism, but it is equally true under our own brand of welfare statism.
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.
Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
Those are possibilities for technology, which don't tend to be used, because of the way power is concentrated. There are all kinds of possibilities, including for coercion. In China, technology is used to control and coerce. Here too, to an extent, but not to that extent.
Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.