“No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.” — JSB Morse Copy Share Image
Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example. — Pervez Musharraf Copy Share Image
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We do not find the Savior using force or coercion to accomplish His purposes. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others… — Nathaniel Branden 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
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
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 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
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
“It's WW2 and there are wage controls in place. Instead of health care, companies decide to offer employees shoes. Having absorbed those… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
The idea of painless, nonthreatening coercion is an illusion. Fear is the inseparable companion of coercion, and its inescapable consequence. If you… — John Holt Copy Share Image
“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
“Many professionals have to sign gagging clauses or face the sack if they speak out. The social worker and therapist was familiar… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other. Is uniformity… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race… — Theodore J. Forstmann Copy Share Image
Indeed, some secularists are so worried about Christianity, they think Christians are about as dangerous as Muslim terrorists. They get really worried… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.” — Kelly Bryson Copy Share Image
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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