Coercion Quotes

138 Coercion quotes by 102 unique authors

Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial… — Murray Rothbard
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose… — Murray Rothbard
Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one. — Pervez Musharraf
Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun,… — Stefan Molyneux
Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make… — Herman Kahn
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.... — James A. Garfield
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 subject to outside… — Corliss Lamont
Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of bureaucrats so long… — Owen D. Young
Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion. — Augusto Boal
Thereâ€™s one thing thatâ€™s been 'learned' maybe from Tunisia and Egypt that I think is a mistake. And that is that the existing ruler has… — Gene Sharp
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. — Milton Friedman
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. — Ludwig von Mises
[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display… — Bob Black
The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the State. It is… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern… — Isham G. Harris
There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that… — Michael Sandel
There must be no coercion in matters of faith! — Karen Armstrong
Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness… — Peter Block
The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life… — Peter Ho Davies
Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are… — Noam Chomsky

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