All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion. — Reinhold Niebuhr 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
I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go. — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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
Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or… — Joseph Nye 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
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
Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion,… — Eric S. Raymond 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
We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those… — Isham G. Harris Copy Share Image
God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
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
To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and… — African Spir 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
“If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State… — Murray N. Rothbard 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
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
“(Talking about the movement to deny the prevalence and effects of adult sexual exploitation of children) So what does this movement consist… — Beatrix Campbell 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
“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
“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
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
“The discovery that detonated Cleveland is one of Britain’s great contributions to awareness of child abuse. In 1986 and 1987 the Leeds… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
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