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Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement. -- Leon Trotsky
If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put an end to, they compel them to fulfil their vows. -- Pope Innocent Iii
Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Necessity knows no law except to conquer. -- Publilius Syrus
One writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain. -- Elena Ferrante
When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence. -- Mark Twain
Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. -- Wayne Thiebaud
Imposition stands starkly at odds with the basic character of the Christian faith, which is at its heart about self-giving - God's self-giving and human self-giving - and not about self-imposing. -- Philip Yancey
Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained. -- Theodore Dalrymple
Curious," Bauchelain said. "What is it you wish us to do for you?"
"Usurp the king," Imid Factalo said.
"Usurp, as in depose."
"Right."
"Depose, as in remove."
"Yes."
"Remove, as in kill. -- Steven Erikson
Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure. -- Luc De Clapiers
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command. -- Thomas Aquinas
The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them. -- Lord Chesterfield
Following of authority in any form, whether self-imposed or established from outside, as well as any form of imitation, copying, is destructive of incentive, of creativeness, and that it blocks the discovery of what is true. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. -- John Ruskin
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort. -- Garrett Hardin
Punishment creates crime. -- Silvia Hartmann
Ritically intervene in a way that challenges and changes. -- Bell Hooks
Positive action, positive impart. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Discipline and demand without being demeaning. -- Don Meyer
Discipline is a demand of life. -- Sunday Adelaja
Absolutes are Coercion.
Change is absolute. -- Allen Ginsberg
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. -- Robert Cialdini
What you can't enforce, do not command. -- Sophocles
Objectives are not commands; they are commitments. -- Peter Drucker
When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
[Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.] -- Tacitus
If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly. -- T.f. Hodge
If you don't abdicate or misuse your power, pressure takes you into realization. -- John De Ruiter
Discipline is doing within, while you do without. -- Denis Waitley
By pushing or forcing something upon people, you tend to push people further away. -- Christopher Atkins
Statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do by virtue of his intellect or temperament, nor prevented anything that man was impelled to do by the same dictates. -- Emma Goldman
But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been. -- John H. Reagan
The Things which hurt, instruct. -- Benjamin Franklin
That which two will, takes effect. -- George Herbert
Discipline is creating the situation. -- Shunryu Suzuki
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. -- Edmund Burke
Needs must, and so on. -- Kate Atkinson
Force is camouflaged by consents; the consent is brought about the methods of mass suggestion. -- Erich Fromm
Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul. -- Mary Parker Follett
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms. -- Constance Baker Motley
Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom; -- Samuel Johnson
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness. -- Date Masamune
There is a certain imperiousness, in the manner of speaking and in actions, which makes itself felt everywhere, and soon wins attention and respect. This commanding quality is useful in all affairs, and even for obtaining what we ask for. -- Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
Coercion. The unpardonable crime. -- Dorothy Richardson
Discipline is something we despise for the moment ... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony. -- Charles Stanley
That which hurts, also instructs. -- Benjamin Franklin
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom. -- Golda Meir
Tyranny begins with the laws of grammar. -- Marty Rubin
The punishing of wits enhances their authority. -- Francis Bacon
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. -- Thomas Jefferson
Instead of imposing something, let it make itself. -- Micah Lexier
Exile is my power. -- Golshifteh Farahani
Discipline must be maintained. -- Charles Dickens
Resist much, obey little. -- Walt Whitman
That which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder. -- Marianne Moore
Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish. -- George Herbert
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it. -- William Hazlitt
In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands. -- Anthony De Jasay
The intention manifests when the condition is appropriate. -- David Hawkins
Moreover a blunt and stolid regard for literal truth indisposes them to make those lavish promises by which the more judicious Circle can in a moment pacify his consort. The result is massacre; -- Edwin A. Abbott
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. -- Joseph Addison
How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess. -- Thomas Paine
[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own. -- Milovan Djilas
Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him. -- Sun Tzu
He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man ... or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy. -- Benjamin Tucker
Presented with a challenge to its power, an illegitimate regime will often overreact, driven by the knowledge that all they have is force. -- Chris Hayes
... consequence has its tax;... -- Jane Austen
Funishment - not truly discipline. -- Cherise Sinclair
When arrogant hands once seize power, the ruler thinks authority resides in stubbornness. -- Seneca.
Reality discipline steers a course between an authoritarian style and a permissive style, giving kids some choices but also holding them accountable. -- Kevin Leman
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
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not. -- Simone Weil
The purpose of discipline is not to punish, but to correct. -- John Wooden
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us. -- Alan W. Watts
The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others. -- Arthur Balfour
If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people. -- Marcel Proust
The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave. -- Ludwig Von Mises
Then might I exemplify how an influence beyond our control lays its strong hand on every deed which we do, and weaves its consequences into an iron tissue of necessity. (Wakefield) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure. -- Isabel Paterson
All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out. -- Carl Jung
The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power. -- Roger L'estrange
Evoke at painful junctures, when discouragement threatens to raise its head, the image of a vast cretinous mouth, red blubber and slobbering, in solitary confinement, extruding indefatigably, with a noise of wet kisses and washing in a tub, the words that obstruct it. -- Samuel Beckett
Dominance leads to tyranny -- Cynthia Hand
It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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. -- Slavoj Zizek
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. -- Thomas Hobbes
guilt force justification! -- Eric Jerome Dickey
Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power. -- Friedrich Ratzel
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work. -- John Milton
He who welcomes anger impairs himself.
He who harbors hate harms himself.
He who entertains envy consumes himself.
He who accommodates bitterness hurts himself.
He who cherishes greed injures himself. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the good health of this group by the number of its delinquents. Nothing is more immobilizing than the spirit of deference. -- Jean Dubuffet
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. -- Maya Banks
The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them. -- Ludwig Von Mises
Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action -- Bob Proctor
Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. -- Chanakya
Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms, it 'excludes', it 'represses'... in fact power produces, it produces reality, it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth. -- Michel Foucault
Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend. -- Nelson Goodman
