Top 63 Coerced Quotes
#1. The medieval courtly love tradition holds that love is impossible in marriage because it is coerced, I said.
Robert B. Parker
#2. Love,affection, attention and validation - These things cannot be controlled or coerced from another. They are given willingly to a genuine person who can meet the needs of the other.
Anonymous
#3. We are now being coerced to accept and believe that a new political-cum-religious doctrine has arisen, namely that 'there is but one political god, George Bush, and Tony Blair is his prophet
Robert Mugabe
#4. Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.
Joni Mitchell
#5. If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in Islamic societies because coerced virtues are not virtues at all.
Dinesh D'Souza
#6. I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
Earle Combs
#7. In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.
Catharine MacKinnon
#8. Jacob didn't want to coerce or be coerced, but what was he supposed to do? Sit on his hands waiting for his grandfather to shatter his hip and die in a hospital room as every abandoned old person is destined to do?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#9. Imagination cannot be coerced, it has a mind of its own.
Marty Rubin
#10. Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
Melissa Bean
#11. 40% of homicides go unsolved. You know, it's not a very good record. And, also, 95% of convictions in America come from plea bargaining, which is often coerced. It's like we have the worst of both worlds. We don't convict the guilty enough, and we coerce the innocent too much.
Bill Maher
#12. No believing Christian can be coerced beyond Holy Writ
Martin Luther
#13. Besides," said Teatime, "if you've been coerced, it's not your fault, is it? No one can blame you. No one could blame anyone who'd been coerced at knife point."
"Oh, well, I s'pose, if we're talking coerced ... " Ernie muttered. Going along with things seemed to be the only way.
Terry Pratchett
#14. My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.
Joshua Roman
#15. We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.
Camille
#17. And he was athletic in a lean sort of way, his long legs able to keep up with me whenever I coerced him into driving me out to the zoo for their early open hours for runners only; those hills were killers on the calves.
Kim Harrison
#18. Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.
P.G. Wodehouse
#19. In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
Albert Camus
#20. But the muse won't always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she'd rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.
Jonathan Tropper
#21. I can't believe I'm being coerced by a bird.
Cate Rowan
#25. Sorry was worthless. It changed nothing. Merely coerced the victim to offer forgiveness for what you shouldn't have done to begin with.
Karen Marie Moning
#26. If by 'graciously volunteered,' you mean 'was threatened and coerced,' then yes, I did,
Rachel Hawkins
#27. People were not getting back what they wanted for their sold labor. Taxes grew and services shrank. Prices rose and quality decayed. Everywhere people felt used and betrayed and coerced and cheated.
Marge Piercy
#28. The Ukrainian people should not be coerced. Make no mistake: the US stands together with the Ukrainians aspiring for democracy.
John F. Kerry
#29. Technically, Japan and South Korea normalized their diplomatic ties 50 years ago, but this wasn't included in the Normalization Treaty because forced prostitution, coerced sex just was taboo to even talk about.
Elise Hu
#30. Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.
Marge Piercy
#31. The great fact of individual difference and variability (that is, inequality) is evident from the long record of human experience: hence, the general recognition of the antihuman nature of a world of coerced uniformity.
Murray Rothbard
#32. I like the au naturel thing you have going on. Girls don't come over here like that."
"I was coerced into coming here. It didn't occur to me to impress you," I said, aggravated that my plan had failed.
Jamie McGuire
#33. Hey, heads up. The hottest doctor in town just came by and coerced me into telling him where you were. I folded like a cheap suitcase. Sorry, but he's hard to say no to. Don't be mad. I owe you a cupcake.
Jill Shalvis
#34. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
Camille Paglia
#35. Benjy's greatest wish was for a place where the echelon was clear to all, where the powerful cared for the weak and the weak gave their respect without being coerced. He longed for balance, order, right and pleasure.
Andre Alexis
#36. Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it's a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#37. Mother has to be coerced into doing a lot of things.
Bess Truman
#39. God's love is perfectly free. It is not coerced by any of our good actions, nor can we lose it because of our bad actions. We are stuck with it and cannot increase-or decrease-God's love for us by anything we do or don't do.
Richard Rohr
#40. 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.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#41. It struck her, this was tragedy
not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.
Virginia Woolf
#42. A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
Aldous Huxley
#43. Faith in Christ is voluntary. A person cannot be coerced, bribed, or tricked into trusting Jesus. God will not force His way into your life. The Holy Spirit will do everything possible to disturb you, draw you, love you - but finally it is your personal decision.
Billy Graham
#44. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
John Perry Barlow
#45. A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds of billions of coerced taxpayer dollars at the disposal of the winners will tend to attract men and women with a comparative advantage in manipulation.
John Stossel
#46. Congratulations,' said Damen. 'You've forced my hand. You have what you want. Delpha, in exchange for your aid in the south. Nothing given freely, nothing done out of feeling, everything coerced, with bloodless planning.' 'Then I have your agreement? Say it.' 'You have my agreement.' 'Good,
C.S. Pacat
#47. If we want hell,
if we want heaven,
they are ours.
That's how love works. It can't be forced, manipulated, or coerced.
It always leaves room for the other to decide.
God says yes,
we can have what we want,
because love wins.
Rob Bell
#48. We are coerced into faith by our suffering.
James Cook
#49. In those days I coerced
Oracular assurance
In my favour out of every sign.
Ted Hughes
#50. No human should be coerced by the state to bear the medical expense, or any other expense, for his fellow man. In other words, the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another is morally offensive.
Walter E. Williams
#51. I read books, I ate when compelled, I sometimes wrote embellished accounts of my day in a leather-bound black diary. I was the sort of child who generally had to be coerced into playing with other children.
Danielle Evans
#52. [I]appreciate a woman who knows when she's being coerced
Jasper Fforde
#53. I can still make a living with touring. And maybe you buy a t-shirt. And I would rather 10 million people get my record and listen to it for free than 500,000 that I coerced to pay $15 for it, you know?
Trent Reznor
#54. A coerced choice does not reflect virtue, only compliance.
Wendy McElroy
#55. If an unjust law is passed and enforced, then anyone coerced to comply with the law is a victim of injustice.
R.C. Sproul
#57. Free is the person who lives as he wishes and cannot be coerced, impeded or compelled, whose impulses cannot be thwarted, who always gets what he desires and never has to experience what he would rather avoid.
Epictetus
#59. Relief, or redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the true solution of poverty, but at best a makeshift, which may mask the disease and mitigate the pain, but provides no basic cure.
Henry Hazlitt
#60. Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
Nelson Mandela
#61. Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing more than we feel comfortable doing by our need to please others.
Sue Thoele
#62. really made me feel that women have been coerced into a way of presenting themselves that is basically a form of bondage. Their shoes, their skirts, even their nails seem designed to stop them from being able
Alan Cumming
#63. I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.
Robert Quine
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