15 Coercive Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral. David Novak

Immoral Only Wrong Just Deception Deceptive Whether Coercion Coercive Violent

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. William Weld

Government Duty Think Minimum Moral Moral Duty Theft Taxation Keep Coercive

Persuasion has become a kind of force. The more the advertiser knows about what consumers want, and the more desires the product and packaging seek to fulfill, the more coercive the force. Virginia Postrel

Become Kind Seek About More Consumers Advertiser Force Knows Want Packaging Fulfill Persuasion Product Coercive Desires

After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional. Bob Beauprez

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I think when you have lawyers arguing over whether you can keep a detainee at 46 degrees... for two hours, that's not torture. It may be unpleasant, it may be coercive... but let's say what torture actually is, and that's not it. Alex Berenson

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We are often told that curtailing the freedom of business is coercive and undemocratic. But by what democratic principle should corporations and billionaires decide the fate of current and future generations? When a government releases them from regulation, it allows them to determine whether other people live or die. George Monbiot

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The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we regard decisions as rational. If the justifications proceed properly, through recognized public institutions, and if they make sense to us, they are legitimate. Michael Ignatieff

Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks. John Yoo

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I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive. Bernadine Dohrn

Felt Were Juries Grand Illegal Coercive

By its nature, governments and taxes are not voluntary. Government actions are violent and coercive, and theft as well. Jeff Berwick

Government Nature Voluntary Well Governments Theft Taxes Actions Coercive Violent

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector. Henry Hazlitt

Sector Fact Voluntary Economy Private Private Sector In Fact Public Public Sector Coercive

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point. Aldrich Ames

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