God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
John Ortberg Jr.Tag: love freedom god faith spirituality coercion
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Albert EinsteinTag: school examinations coercion compulsive-memorization
No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation.
Thomas PynchonSocial systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his door and then turn you away, rather his home address is hard to find. The government handcuffs you so they don't have to shoot you trying to escape. And so on.
Tyler CowenTag: brutality coercion social-systems
It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.
Kelly BrysonTag: psychology motivation coercion
For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have spent on the things they needed most.
Henry HazlittTag: economics waste taxation theft coercion krugman public-works stimulus
Coercing attitude drains your strength.
Toba BetaTag: life strength attitude coercion drain
... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.
Judith Lewis HermanTag: power inequality law rape crime feminist sexism dominance criminal male-thinking abuse-of-power rape-survivor raped patriarchy rape-culture sexual-assault sexual-violence coercion feminist-theory abused-women coercive-acts male-dominance male-domination rape-convictions violation
Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.
Carl CohenTag: justice prison state government boredom threat rights act experiment coercion
Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
Pat ConroyTag: conformity law coercion
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