Coercion Quotes

You're watching a democratic political process evolving before your eyes in which Iraqis are now pulling together through political compromise, whereas in the era of Saddam Hussein it was coercion and tyranny that forced them to come together. - Sean McCormack

You can't set a framework through coercion. If you try to do it by force, our response will be to break such a framework. - Ali Larijani

What we do is leave that up to the court if it finds that there's coercion. - Carl Levin

We who believe that children want to learn about the world, are good at it, and can be trusted to do it with very little adult coercion or interference, are probably no more than one percent of the population, if that. And we are not likely to become the majority in my lifetime. This doesn't trouble me much anymore, as long as this minority keeps on growing. My work is to help it grow. - John Holt

We need to pursue our international efforts in a spirit of cooperation ? not coercion ? with a true sense of partnership. - Harlan Watson

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

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. - Corliss Lamont

To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it. - Garrett Hardin