#Coercion Quotes

“Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.”

“My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.”

“Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.”

“It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.”

“The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.”

“Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.”

“Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.”

“But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.”

“A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.”

“When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.”

“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”

“It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.”