Coercive Quotes

You never control your classroom. Your students do. They always have; they always will. You cannot be coercive enough for them. - Earl Brown

Who can seriously doubt that the power which a millionaire, who may be my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest bureaucrat possesses who wields the coercive power of the state and on whose discretion it depends how I am allowed to live and work? - Friedrich August Hayek

What the anti-fat activists are saying is, people don't want what they ought to want, and therefore the government has to coercively change what they want. - Jacob Sullum

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset

We are in this case to defend the rights of military officers to authentically worship according to their conscience, without fear of reprisal that their personal worship could be somehow deemed coercive. - Kyle Fisk

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. - Robert Jackson

They have a choice -- either to continue the policy of defiance and then continue to be further isolated and possibly subject to coercive measures, or come around and then open doors for the international community. - Mohamed ElBaradei