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... the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education,
when the real purpose is coercion w... - MORE ... the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education,
when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

Hannah Arendt

politics and power | education

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Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its p... - MORE Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

Hannah Arendt

totalitarianism

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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled i... - MORE Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

James Baldwin

society

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Magic is the envelopment and coercion of the objective world by the ego; it is a dynamic subjectivism. Religion is the coercion of... - MORE Magic is the envelopment and coercion of the objective world by the ego; it is a dynamic subjectivism. Religion is the coercion of the ego by gods and spirits who are objectively conceived beings in control of nature and man.

Richard Chase

magic | religion

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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relation... - MORE 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.

Noam Chomsky

human nature

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Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhe... - MORE Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the "breadwinner ethic."

Barbara Ehrenreich

men

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It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty. It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

Franz Grillparzer

desire | coercion | duty

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In child rearing it would unquestionably be easier if a child were to do something because we say so. The authoritarian method doe... - MORE In child rearing it would unquestionably be easier if a child were to do something because we say so. The authoritarian method does expedite things, but it does not produce independent functioning. If a child has not mastered the underlying principles of human interactions and merely conforms out of coercion or conditioning, he has no tools to use, no resources to apply in the next situation that confronts him.

Elaine Heffner

parenting styles, authoritarian

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Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to ... - MORE Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

force

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What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support rogu... - MORE What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

Thomas Jefferson

religion

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