government and politics on Coercion

You can get more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a gun alone.

I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only o...

The purpose of the law is to prevent the strong from always getting their way.

If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus' fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; n...

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Above all, Christians are not allowed to correct with violence.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

When you pass beyond good and evil, you pass into the realm where might is right, and where anything that reminds you of the old moral values—for instance, a large Jewish community—stands in your way ...

The Athenian general and politician Themistocles eventually alienated a large number of Greek City-States that came under their rule in the late 6th and early 5th centuries B.C. With his fleet of ship...