... 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the West, you don't get in any trouble if you tell the truth, but you still can't do it. Not only… — Noam Chomsky 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 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
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
“order to safeguard an imagined order, continuous and strenuous efforts are imperative. Some of these efforts take the shape of violence and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It… — Peter Block 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
[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
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 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
“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
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
“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
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
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 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
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
“For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of… — Owen D. Young Copy Share Image
Those are possibilities for technology, which don't tend to be used, because of the way power is concentrated. There are all kinds… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in… — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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