Quotes by Coercion All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion. Reinhold Niebuhr cooperation groups coercion We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion. Ron Paul goal coercion trying Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less. Ron Paul groups government coercion Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. Ronald Reagan politics coercion men The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion. Siyyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi compassion coercion path Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. Theodor Adorno break-through coercion mean Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. Wilhelm von Humboldt vices coercion beauty God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion. William Matthews choices coercion ideas «1234