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To submit isn't to be forced. It's to yield to a force greater than your own, in order to become part of the whole.
Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.
The only person pressuring me is myself.
What torture it is to hold onto reason as desire intensifies
There is a group of people who know very well where the weapons of automatic influence lie and employ them regularly and expertly to get what they want. They go from social encounter to social encounter requesting others to comply with their wishes; their frequency of success is dazzling.
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
There is no equality without coercion.
There is an excitement to being bound. To being helpless. A sensual thrill that comes from trusting fully and abandoning modesty at the command of your lover.
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
Defiance through compliance.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.
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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.
Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect - better because they alone give promise of final success.
Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.
When you control information, or manipulate it, you don't need force to keep people under your thumb. They stay there willingly.
Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature such as self preservation? (CIA Document, Project ARTICHOKE, MORI ID 144686, 1952)
As cited by Dr Ellen P. Lacter, p57
There's an unsavory term for that- a guy forcing a girl to do sexual things. But what is it they say? You can't rape the willing. And I'd be willing. Oh, how I'd be willing.
Given in love. Defiled by remorse.
They call it torture when our guys put underwear on a guy's head, stripped him naked, put an egg between his buttcheeks and made him do jumping jacks. You know, if it can't get you into a fraternity at Chico State University, it's not torture.
There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's character and conduct, which is not the less effectual because it works insensibly, and because it is really the last thing he dreams of.
What I impose, I must accept.
I was helplessly captured; and hopelessly enraptured.
Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.
Defence lawyers use the term "duress" to describe the use of force, coercion or psychological pressure exerted on a client in the commission of a crime. When duress is applied to the emotionally unstable the result can be as violent as it is unpredictable.
Want your obedience. I expect it - no, I demand it. I don't relish nor will I enjoy the idea of punishing you. So if you seek to bait me so that you enjoy the thrill of discipline, you're sure to be disappointed.
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.
Finally Abdellahi Moussa Boqor asked, "So why are you doing this?" I paused for a moment, and then the words just came out of my mouth. "It is the will of the soul," I said. "The soul cannot be coerced.
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.
To feel controlled is to lose interest.
Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.
As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.
But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.
He dominated her, but she tamed him
Compelled to help arm the troops fighting to preserve his enslavement.
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield.
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.
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
Our character is revealed under pressure.
When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.
Did we force ourselves on you, or you on us?
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.
If I, the group leader, expect you, the group member, to be weak, then I elicit the weak part of you. If I expect you to be able to cope, I elicit your strength.
When, then, a man was deprived of freedom he became like a brute. To
Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.
The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.
Tempting is not forcing.
Your words seduced me,captured and imprisoned me in a world of wonders.
Enthralled, I lie at your feet,slayed and yearning for more of your magic.
As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its greatest which just precedes the point where 'elicit' is no longer apt usage. 'Dictates' is the word for this condition and tyranny is the adversary.
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.
I'm not holding you against your will; I'm holding you against your car.
Victoria made a violent sound of protest. "I am not repressed!"
Seht pinched her nipple and watched her resulting shiver. "You have never been spanked or ass-f**ked. I would say that's pretty damned repressed." "Bastard!
Desire denied consumes
I was forced to agree.
When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.
Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion
Kate was lying under him, spread on the table like a banquet for a starving man. And the scent of her arousal caused his hunger to spike suddenly and sharply from deep inside him. It surged out of him in a wave that overwhelmed him. Journey Into Submission (eXtasy)
Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude.
It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.
Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.
Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious
Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure-its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.
Men often think submission indicates weakness, that letting someone else take charge betrays a character deficit. But we all submit to strangers who drill into our teeth as long as we can see the parchment on their wall which reads Dentist.
When we try to control, we become controlled; when we release, we become free.
obsequious courting of the mob
God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.
No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
No man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.
As much as you fight, you like to be controlled.
I will not be browbeaten, however nicely you do it. I am done with things happening to me. From here on out, I am going to happen to things.
The interrogation has succeeded; I am now an enemy of the state. ... I have become a violent act of reality inflicted upon the fiction of which we are both citizens. I want him to know that I understand this, that every thump of his truncheon hardens my resolve, that he has my permission.
To quote a dictum of Simon, what a horse does under compulsion he does blindly, and his performance is no more beautiful than would be that of a ballet-dancer taught by whip and goad.
The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.
Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.
Restraint: not just for sex anymore.
Our subject is, you see, impelled towards the good by, paradoxically, being impelled towards evil. The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress. To counter these the subject has to switch to a diametrically opposed attitude.
I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
Compulsion is attraction without reason.
To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else ...
I'm not the type of person that is forced.
The person who has been accustomed to subdue men by force will be less inclined to the trouble of convincing or persuading them.
Fear cannot restrain, when pleasure invites.
Passionately desired, graciously received.
By capturing; you set me free.
One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.
Silence gives consent.
Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it? ... the law of force itself, to those who could not plead any other, has always seemed the most natural of all grounds for the exercise of authority.