Coercion Quotes
The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.
I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go.
There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.
Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.
Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.
What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.
All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils.
God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.
The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.
God is so immense that if he were 'too visible, ' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.
All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here.
It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.
No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.
Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.
No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.
Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.
Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.
Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.
Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.
It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.
Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.
Sin, on the contrary, is the pursuit of legitimate self-regarding interests at the expense of the neighbor, by spending our time and talents figuring out ways of exploiting them.
By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.
I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve already done it. It’s called a nickel.
No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.
Those who love, truly love, can be coerced into nothing.
Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based "philosophy, " which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it "progressive".
Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.
If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.
There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.
Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.
When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.
Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.