Earth Quote by Thomas Jefferson

What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error…

— Thomas Jefferson

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons.…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Coercing attitude drains your strength.”

— Toba Beta

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

“At least insofar as the rules providing for coercion are not aimed at me personally but are so framed as to apply equally to…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

“And in every instance, the motive is the same: suppressing dissent and mandating compliance.”

— Glenn Greenwald

The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.

— Anders Chydenius

The virtue in most request is conformity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

— John Foster Dulles

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

— Mark Skousen

“unilateral sense of communication and cooperation, rather coercively, nay, even menacingly demand”

— Aindra Das