Pieter Willem Botha Quotes

I don't believe in strong-arming people.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

We look forward to the necessity of coercion …

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

Unless we are prepared to use frequent force, we must put up with things being done…that the majority of people in this country do not approve.

If I get ‘em by the short and curlies, the hearts and minds will follow.

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

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …

If you are strong, and if you have a strong logic, you can convince people by your ideas. Torture means your logic is very weak, so you need power to impose on others.

If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.

I don't like dragging people.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.