Coercive Power

Famous quotes containing the words coercive and/or power:

“Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

“The British are a self-distrustful, diffident people, agreeing with alacrity that they are neither successful nor clever, and only modestly claiming that they have a keener sense of humour, more robust common sense, and greater staying power as a nation than all the rest of the world put together.”
—Quoted in Fourth Leaders from the Times (1950)