[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions. — George Will Copy Share Image
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters. — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
“If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.” — JSB Morse Copy Share Image
Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of religious coercion? To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their… — Judith Sargent Murray Copy Share Image
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents… A lasting… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“A cop's JOB is to violently enforce upon the rest of us whatever arbitrary bullshit the political parasites declare to be "law."… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Far from protecting children, the abuse of Article 8 risks making them pawns - subject to coercion or worse - as part… — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
“Be submissive to one another.' By this phrase, the idea of hierarchy -- that one has authority over another -- is completely… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
There must be no bloodshed, no violence unless it is defensive, no coercion! We must do it our way and our way… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
“What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced society is not, strictly… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
There’s one thing that’s been 'learned' maybe from Tunisia and Egypt that I think is a mistake. And that is that the… — Gene Sharp 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
“There is also another political party, who desire, through the influence of legislation and coercion, to level the world. To say the… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
“Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
“If you personally advocate that I be caged if I don't pay for whatever "government" things YOU want, please don't pretend to… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand.… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“In this book we paint an unprecedented portrait of Britain’s first ‘false memory’ retraction and show that, like other ‘false memory’ cases… — Beatrix Campbell 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
“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
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
We want open markets, rather than a lack of competition resulting in coercion. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense. — Mark Dever 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
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