Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“order to safeguard an imagined order, continuous and strenuous efforts are imperative. Some of these efforts take the shape of violence and… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods. Leadership is not manifested by coercion,… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed,… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
All socialism involves slavery… That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“[A]s long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
“Psi technology had come far enough to use coercion, if necessary, as well as the usual inter-dimensional cloaking to avoid detection. And… — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Precisely because the State has the monopoly of coercion it can be allowed the monopoly only of coercion. Only if the modern… — Henry Hazlitt 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
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
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
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
“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
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
![“Mr. Yorke wished to know whether this interference, vigilance, and coercion would feed those who were hungry, give work to those who wanted work, and whom no man would hire. He scouted the idea of inevitable evils. He said public patience was a camel, on whose back the last[Pg 48] atom that could…” quote by Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fb6/charlotte-bronte-144_patience_mr-yorke-wished-to-know-whether-this-int_1218235.jpg)
![“To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one can not be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c44/salman-rushdie-153_accepting_to-put-it-as-simply-as-possible-i-am-not_245927.jpg)
![“[A]s long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if meaningful.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6e7/noam-chomsky-42_coercion_a-s-long-as-individuals-are-compelled-to_2063768.jpg)
