Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral. Mahatma Gandhi
We must therefore look with grave misgivings upon the psychology of the ‘crusade' or on the notion that we can make the world over in our own image either by persuasion or by coercion. Henry Steele Commager
This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. Joseph Lancaster
Ours is an accusational and not an inquisitorial system - a system in which the state must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth. Felix Frankfurter