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More Coercion Quotes

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• Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. — Theodor Adorno
• The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social… — Noam Chomsky
• Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we… — James A. Baldwin
• The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations. — Anthony Gregory
• History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents....… — Ludwig von Mises
• Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet… — Thomas Jefferson
• Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an… — Thomas Jefferson
• Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as… — Thomas Jefferson
• Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the… — Friedrich August von Hayek
• What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary… — Ayn Rand
• Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or… — Milton Friedman
• Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use… — Milton Friedman

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