“Men are moral beings in their untrammelled nature. If constraint and coercion can once be removed they will be happy and if… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, government negatively… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or… — Mike Mason Copy Share Image
I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry;… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I wanted to believe that everyone would throw down their arms and embrace one another, drop the trappings of war and coercion… — Chris Weitz 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
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
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In many respects, the United States is the freest country in the world. I don't just mean in terms of limits on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn… — Laozi Copy Share Image
China's military aggression and coercion towards Taiwan is a threat to U.S. international and regional security interests in the Indo-Pacific. — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
“If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend. — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion.… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“Therapy requires a collaborative working relationship in which both partners act on the basis of their implicit confidence in the value and… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that… — William F. Schulz Copy Share Image
This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
