Coercive Quotes

56 quotes by 47 authors

Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a… — Florence Nightingale
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector. — Henry Hazlitt
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. — William Weld
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children:… — Christopher Hitchens
When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as… — Bell Hooks
Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true… — Alfie Kohn
It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability nor for the… — Murray Rothbard
Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and… — Grover Norquist
Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral. — David Novak
Persuasion has become a kind of force. The more the advertiser knows about what consumers want, and the more desires the product and packaging seek… — Virginia Postrel
The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we regard… — Michael Ignatieff
Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government… — Michael Ignatieff
The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would… — John Bates Clark
Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of… — George Washington
Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges… — Immanuel Kant

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