Appropriate Quote by William Godwin

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

— Ludwig von Mises

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“All governments, even these precious “democracies,” derive all their power by force. Do something the government doesn’t want, like, say, cross the street against…

— S. Evan Townsend

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is…

— Nathaniel Branden

Persuasion is better than force.

— Anonymous

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

— Aesop

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of…

— Harry Browne

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

— Stanley Milgram

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

— Nelson Mandela

“I think maybe the classic formulation was by David Hume in "Of the First Principles of Government," where he pointed out that "Force is…

— Noam Chomsky

“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a…

— Timothy Snyder

“The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.”

— Malcolm Gladwell