Coercion Quote by Ludwig von Mises

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with…

— Ludwig von Mises

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a…

— Albert Einstein

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say,…

— Anonymous

The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or…

— Ludwig von Mises

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of…

— Ludwig von Mises

We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such…

— Ludwig von Mises

The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot be abandoned…

— Ludwig von Mises

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

— Ludwig von Mises

Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of bureaucrats so…

— Owen D. Young

“The opposite of liberty is slavery.”

— Joseph Befumo

[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives.

— Theodore J. Forstmann

“The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason…

— Harold Edmund Stearns