Word: coercion
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Father Dunne pointed out that if a Catholic feels that the teachings of the Church are not those of Divine Authority he is free to disagree, whereupon he automatically leaves the Church. "There is no coercion at all except a coercion of conscience...
...This coercion had such a deterring effect [upon me] that after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year...
Unfortunately, says Einstein, the coercion has not lessened since he was a student. "It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail...
...dinners, and his Greenwich Village mob ran the Chelsea District piers. Everybody knew Johnny Dunn was a killer, but nobody could pin it on him. During the war some small brass in the Army even tried to get him out of stir (he was doing time for coercion) because his services as a transportation expert were much in demand. Furious Fiorello La Guardia put a stop to that. The only mote in Johnny Dunn's sighting eye was Anthony Hintz, the hiring boss on Pier 51 at the Hudson River foot of Manhattan's Jane Street. Andy Hintz...
...from the trade union point of view . . . but as a weapon designed to create a chaotic state in the country . . . [They are] deliberately seeking to create famine conditions by paralyzing our railway system ... It is not the government's conception of civil liberty to permit methods of coercion and terrorism...