Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country."
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Coercion
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Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution."
Laozi
Philosopher
"Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion."
Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him."
Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion."
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"Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end."
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"Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?"
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"One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman."
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"The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion."
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"A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion."
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"Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth of a free society. The Socialist demagogues know that as well as I, but they maintain the myth of the virtues of the majority, because their very scheme of life means the perpetuation of power."
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"Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion."
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"[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions."
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"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."
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"Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control."
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"Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it."
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