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
We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry;… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“There is no need for us all to be alike and think the same way, neither do we need a common enemy… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's… — John Herschel 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
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
“No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.” — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or… — Mike Mason Copy Share Image
“No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.” — JSB Morse Copy Share Image
It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have… — Maria Montessori 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 blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.” — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
There must be no bloodshed, no violence unless it is defensive, no coercion! We must do it our way and our way… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point. — Mark Twain 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 best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image