Coercion Quotes

138 Coercion quotes by 102 unique authors

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds. — Bob Black
We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion. — Ron Paul
But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured,… — Gloria Steinem
Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated… — Nathaniel Branden
Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute. — Philip K. Howard
If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force… — Tibor R. Machan
Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation. — Murray Rothbard
Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind… — Ludwig von Mises
One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of… — Sigmund Freud
Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to… — Rush Limbaugh
[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions. — George Will
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what… — Barbara Ehrenreich
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires. — Herbert Spencer
Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
...as long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role… — Noam Chomsky
Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that persuasion is far… — William F. Schulz
I believe it is urgent to begin now, before we are constrained by a totally controlled society monitoring limited resources on the planet. Now is… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline? — Jiddu Krishnamurti
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because… — William Godwin
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected. — Garrett Hardin
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort. — Garrett Hardin
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy… — Garrett Hardin
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification… — Friedrich August von Hayek

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