Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.” — Ludwig von Mises 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
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
Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The thing that was bad about colonialism, and the thing which is residually bad in some of our aid programs, is that… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
I believe it is urgent to begin now, before we are constrained by a totally controlled society monitoring limited resources on the… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world government. It's inevitable... There's going to be… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
“Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to… — Ronald Reagan 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
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
“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
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
Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government… — Robert Higgs 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
“(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
“True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
“A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.” — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral. — David Novak Copy Share Image
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to… — Garrett Hardin 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
“An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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