Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution. — Paramahansa Yogananda 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
“No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.” — Lysander Spooner 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
Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute. — Philip K. Howard 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
Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters.… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the… — Herman Kahn 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also… — Howard Zinn 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
Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the West, you don't get in any trouble if you tell the truth, but you still can't do it. Not only… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“What was the power that induced strong soldiers to put off their jackets and shirts, and present their hands to be tied… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
“Western capitalist society, and especially my own American society, is one characterized by great inequalities. In any such society, by the nature… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“In 2004, the Animals in War monument outside Hyde Park in London was created by the English sculptor David Backhouse. The monument… — Anthony J. Nocella II Copy Share Image
“Love is not coercion, and the state is only an agent of coercion. It has no other function and can work no… — Joel McDurmon Copy Share Image
“The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“There is no need for us all to be alike and think the same way, neither do we need a common enemy… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“I don’t.” She rubbed her arms and looked away. “It … I don’t like it when you’re violent.” “Me, either.” He crossed the… — Zoe Archer Copy Share Image
“As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by funding the candidate that legislates in their… — Mary J. Ruwart Copy Share Image
