Zebulon Pike Quotes

We will not go. The only way to get us there is to come in here with clubs and knock us on the head, and drag us out and take us down there dead.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe.

We do not force people to move to new homes, we coerce them.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

The state is force incarnate, its essence is command and compulsion.

… the duress of the facts

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Community ends with coercion; it doesn't begin there.

I shall order the men to disregard your order, to stand fast. I shall then walk to the largest window in the plant, open it, divest myself of my outer reinments, remove my shirt and bare my bosom. Then when you order your troops to fire, mine will be the first breast those bullets will strike!

We look forward to the necessity of coercion …

We cannot have a situation where people decide to sit in places not allowed and when police remove them they say no. We can’t have that. That is a revolt to the system. Some are crying that they were beaten. Yes you will be thoroughly beaten. When the police say move, you move. If you don’t move, you invite the police to use force.

Go and tell those who have sent you that we are here by the will of the nation, and that we will not leave save at the point of bayonets.

I hold it blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it.

Governmental power is the faculty to beat into submission all those who would dare to disobey the orders issued by the authorities. … Every governmental action is backed by constables, prison guards, and executioners. However beneficial a governmental action may appear, it is ultimately made possible only by the government's power to compel its subjects to do what many of them would not do if they were not threatened by the police and the penal courts.

Violence is the only language understood by Mr. Lloyd George and his ministers.

It is never easy to cleanly distinguish freedom and duty, consent and bondage, choice and compulsion.

I don't do what I do willingly, but I have to do it.

They would say, 'Okay, do KP,' and I would say, 'Excuse me, but I can't do KP. I'll do it tomorrow if that's all right with you.' And they'd say, 'Hell no, it's not all right with us. You do KP.'

You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do.

I don't take well to rules.

You can't try to keep someone against their will, or it's difficult to get them to listen or have the right mentality.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.

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