The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We do not find the Savior using force or coercion to accomplish His purposes. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. — Ludwig von Mises 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
“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
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
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become… — Theodore J. Forstmann Copy Share Image
“Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
The free market is constantly under attack from those who believe that they know how to make the world a better place… — George Leef Copy Share Image
The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As everyone knows, there is no intelligence in coercion or forcing another into action or realization. And if the name of the… — Jose Arguelles Copy Share Image
Every human being shall see in each and all of his fellow-men a hidden divinity... that every human being is made in… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“There are always a dozen reasons for doing nothing," Ann liked to say--it was a favourite apologia, indeed, for many of her… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past.… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
“When men and women get their hands on religion, one of the first things they often do is turn it into an… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or… — Jeffrey Tucker 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
“Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example. — Pervez Musharraf Copy Share Image
“No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.” — JSB Morse 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
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. An all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“As long as the acquisition of knowledge is rendered habitually repugnant, so long will there be a prevailing tendency to discontinue it… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help… — Wilhelm von Humboldt 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
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
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
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