The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Love has to spring spontaneously from within And it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force. Love… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
“It constantly amazes me that defenders of the free market are expected to offer certainty and perfection while government has only to… — Lawrence W. Reed Copy Share Image
Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
People who denounce the free market and voluntary exchange, and are for control and coercion, believe they have more intelligence and superior… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Mr. Yorke wished to know whether this interference, vigilance, and coercion would feed those who were hungry, give work to those who… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It's illegal to forcefully take money from people unless you're the government. It's illegal to take someone's liberty, unless you're the government.… — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that… — William F. Schulz Copy Share Image
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Young girls frequently report that their early sexual experiences were coerced. In a study in South Africa, 30 percent of girls report… — Njovana Watts Copy Share Image
How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
In many respects, the United States is the freest country in the world. I don't just mean in terms of limits on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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