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)

“Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)