The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid…

Paternalism is everywhere in our lives. We have to immunise our children unless we are upset about it. In India, it is the opposite.…

— Esther Duflo

There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but difficult pupil…

— Philip French

Libya is a war of the womb. A product of the romantic minds of women who fantasize about an Arab awakening. It is estrogen-driven…

— Ilana Mercer

“Self-reliance and independence can transform into selfishness and license, ambition into greed and a frantic desire to succeed at any cost. More than once…

— Barack Obama

“Libertarian paternalism is a relatively weak, soft, and nonintrusive type of paternalism because choices are not blocked, fenced off, or significantly burdened.”

— Richard H. Thaler

“But then it is easy, too easy, to sermonize about the dangers of paternalism and the need to take responsibility for our own lives,…

— Abhijit V. Banerjee

The paternalism of the Conservative party is breathtaking.

— Claire Fox

“The first is that seemingly small features of social situations can have massive effects on people’s behavior; nudges are everywhere, even if we do…

— Richard H. Thaler

We should know why paternalism, collectivism, or unnecessary federal supervision will hold our standard of living down and reduce productivity just as it has…

— Ezra Taft Benson

A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation…

— H. L. Mencken

We may as well face the fact, and face it squarely, that we are too much governed. The agencies of government have multiplied, their…

— Roland H. Hartley

“Libertarian paternalism is a relatively weak, soft, and nonintrusive type of paternalism because choices are not blocked, fenced off, or significantly burdened. If people…

— Anonymous

The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its…

— Grover Cleveland

“Selective paternalism, for those on low incomes or for other groups needing state assistance, is perhaps even worse than general paternalism, since the minority…

— Guy Standing

The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without…

— C. S. Lewis