Bee Wilson

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.

British Journalist

Noam Chomsky

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

American Activist

B. F. Skinner

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.

American Psychologist

Corliss Lamont

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.

American Philosopher

Reuven Rivlin

Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.

Israeli Politician

Garrett Hardin

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

American Environmentalist

Murray Rothbard

The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.

American Economist

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.

Mongolian Politician

Robert McNamara

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

American Public Servant

James A. Garfield

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

American President

Coercion usually implies a negative and forceful action, often considered morally wrong.

Negative Emotion

Coercion doesn't always mean physical force but can include subtle forms like emotional pressure.

Subtle Force

Coercion can happen in private and hard to prove situations, like behind closed doors.

Not Always Obvious

In law, coercion can render contracts void and can be a criminal offense.

Legal Consequences

Legal coercion must often be proven with evidence in crimes or contract disputes.

Evidence Required

In computing, coercion can occur unintentionally when programming, leading to errors.

Not Always Intended

Type coercion behavior can vary between different programming languages; always check documentation.

Language Specific

 to any sentient creature with the power of reason and the urge to persist in its being, for it requires only the convictions that life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion,

Is the world getting...

 and our interest in trying to explore new ideas. Why is this not like colonialism? The thing that was bad about colonialism, and the thing which is residually bad in some of our aid programs, is that it involved elements of coercion and condescension.

Paul Romer: Why the...

 matter a recipe for intolerance and coercion so better to shy away from to ignore the moral and the religious convictions that people bring the civic life it seems to me that our discussion reflects the opposite that a better way

The lost art of...

 an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in. Now in the old days, conducting, music making, was less about trust and more, frankly, about coercion.

Charles Hazlewood:...

 and for that matter, around the world. There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.

Michael Sandel: The lost...

 90 percent of appraisers reported that they had been subject to coercion from the lenders trying to get them to inflate an appraisal. In other words, both forms of fraud became absolutely endemic and normal,

How to rob a bank (from...

 not through force or coercion or invasion, but by simply looking at all of the options available to us and choosing the ones that favor peace at the expense of war, instead of war at the expense of peace.

The real harm of the...

 That is food and care and shelter. And somehow, these most essential workers are also among the world's most underpaid and exploited today. Human trafficking is the use of force, fraud or coercion

Noy Thrupkaew: Human...

 to get the outcomes you want without coercion or payment, is what I call soft power. And that soft power has been much neglected and much misunderstood, and yet it's tremendously important.

Joseph Nye on global...

 they are the people society fears most a world of violence and coercion gang wars and bloody riots it's an entire nation behind bars a prison nation with numbers