“The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged 'services' and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors.… — Robert Higgs 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
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
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
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
Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth… — Emma Goldman 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
“I wanted to believe that everyone would throw down their arms and embrace one another, drop the trappings of war and coercion… — Chris Weitz Copy Share Image
As everyone knows, there is no intelligence in coercion or forcing another into action or realization. And if the name of the… — Jose Arguelles Copy Share Image
Every human being shall see in each and all of his fellow-men a hidden divinity... that every human being is made in… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“There are always a dozen reasons for doing nothing," Ann liked to say--it was a favourite apologia, indeed, for many of her… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past.… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“When men and women get their hands on religion, one of the first things they often do is turn it into an… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Until one nation ceases its attempts to dominate another, there will never be true freedom. Until one religion relinquishes its quest to… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it.… — A. H. Almaas Copy Share Image
“I said that any sort of power is coercion of the people, and that the time will come when there will be… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Consider the sexual harassment which continually occurs between a secretary and a boss . . . while objectionable to many women, [it]… — Walter Block Copy Share Image
The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse 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 and error all over the earth… [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4a4/thomas-jefferson-43_earth_what-has-been-the-effect-of-coercion-to_238945.jpg)
![“[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display the least interest in libertarianism. Those on the receiving end of coercion don't quibble over their coercers' credentials. If you can't pay or don't…” quote by Bob Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/af3/bob-black-24650_care_libertarians-don-t-denounce-what-the-sta_1854836.jpg)
![“Consider the sexual harassment which continually occurs between a secretary and a boss . . . while objectionable to many women, [it] is not a coercive action. It is rather part of a package deal in which the secretary agrees to all aspects of the job when she agrees to accept the job, and…” quote by Walter Block](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/af6/walter-block-52163_accepting_consider-the-sexual-harassment-which-con_1766533.jpg)
