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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

~A. Bartlett Giamatti

Topics: Coercion Exchange Free Here Ideas Mediums Other People Universities

Keywords: Chore Culture Daily Even Harmony Smallest


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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Apply Behavior Benefits Changing Coercion Controls Eliminate Environment Everyone Ideal Kind Reinforce Such A Way Way

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The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.

~Bee Wilson

Topics: Advised Any Being Coercion Condition Eat Exposed Feeling Food Get Less Like Main More More People Natural People Quite Response Said Second Seems Sense Them Through Vegetables Way Wish Without

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Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

~Benjamin Tucker

Topics: Coercion Ground Invasion Justified Minimum Pain Therefore

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The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship.

~Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Topics: Censorship Coercion Court Justice Legitimacy Maintain Must Only Through

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Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

~Bob Black

Topics: Any Application Coercion Law Official Succeeds Use

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Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Because Become Coercion Justice Love Measure Never Perfect Perfect Love Politics Realm Rests

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True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

~Corliss Lamont

Topics: According Acting Altogether Capacity Character Coercion Freedom Outside Self Subject True True Character True Freedom

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The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

~David Mamet

Topics: Between Branches Coercion Desires Evil Founders Government Greed Individual Literally Must Necessary Necessary Evil Only Opposition Parties Peace Political Political Parties Power Quite Recognized Submission Temper Various Ways

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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

Topics: Coercion Deception Deceptive Immoral Just Only Violent Whether Wrong

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