Here all concerns about aid, suasion, and civilizational prejudices were drowned out by shrieking simulators and thundering tanks. |
We wait like small children to see if an aging Ayatollah will decide to evict us by force or moral suasion. |
Education was the means by which elites could pacify the people as a collective, rendering them governable through moral suasion. |
We're looking for moral suasion so that people are encouraged to respect the national anthem. |
Would it not have been better to allow internal reform, political evolution, and moral suasion combined with unfettered commerce to work change? |
It makes more sense for Jospin simply to voice the warning and rely on the government's powers of moral suasion. |