Beauty Quote by Wilhelm von Humboldt

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

— James A. Garfield

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

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

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

— Dorothy Richardson

“Lovers of freedom are, of course, also by and large lovers of tolerance and permissiveness. Being tolerant and permissive, especially toward others, but even…

— Allen W. Wood

Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are backed by…

— Leonard Read

“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

“The coercion which a government must still use … is reduced to a minimum and made as innocuous as possible by restraining it through…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

— Dinesh D'Souza

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

— William Hazlitt

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

— Adam Smith