It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The only crime of the Government is that it governs. The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is that it is supreme.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not… — Corliss Lamont 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
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
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
In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“It constantly amazes me that defenders of the free market are expected to offer certainty and perfection while government has only to… — Lawrence W. Reed Copy Share Image
Love has to spring spontaneously from within And it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force. Love… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between… — David Mamet 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.” — Larken Rose 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
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
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Having conditions forced on him, with the threat of destruction clearly the cost of resistance, does not constitute a fair definition of… — Robert J. Norrell Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal… — Walter E. Williams 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
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