The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion. — Siyyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi Copy Share Image
The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations. — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions. — George Will Copy Share Image
Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one. — Pervez Musharraf Copy Share Image
Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute. — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. An all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement,… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In… — Arthur Melvin Okun Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion… — Milton Friedman 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
“Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
“Then he was striding toward me. His mesmerizing gaze pinned me in place as he cupped my face. When his lips covered… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“The coercion which a government must still use … is reduced to a minimum and made as innocuous as possible by restraining… — Friedrich A. Hayek 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
“But who would build the roads if there were no government? You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
“Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve. — John Stott 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
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Learning is possible only when there is no coercion of any kind.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
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