Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Those in government are especially susceptible to the corruption of power, because government is institutionalized coercion.” — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral. — David Novak Copy Share Image
“A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.” — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The thing that was bad about colonialism, and the thing which is residually bad in some of our aid programs, is that… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Be submissive to one another.' By this phrase, the idea of hierarchy -- that one has authority over another -- is completely… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
Far from protecting children, the abuse of Article 8 risks making them pawns - subject to coercion or worse - as part… — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
“The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in… — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
Those are possibilities for technology, which don't tend to be used, because of the way power is concentrated. There are all kinds… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.” — J.S.B. Morse 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
Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“A cop's JOB is to violently enforce upon the rest of us whatever arbitrary bullshit the political parasites declare to be "law."… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents… A lasting… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their… — Judith Sargent Murray Copy Share Image
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system -- a system in which the state must establish guilt by evidence independently… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, government negatively… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
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