Top Coercion Quotes
Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and the leaders seek to attach their followers to their own person. Liberalism has nothing to do with all...
Ludwig von Mises
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anarchy, capitalism, coercion, communism, evil, fascism, free, free market, freedom, government
Coercion Definition
(n.) The act or process of coercing.
(n.) The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion.
Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational...
Stanley Milgram
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aggression, authority, belief, coercion, consciousness, experiment, government, indoctrination, mind, obedience
To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate his power of reason. He must be able to detect...
Frederick Douglass
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anarchy, coercion, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, non aggression principle, politics, slavery, statism
It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there are no exemptions for people who, for reasons of conscien...
Karl Hess
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anarchy, army, authoritarianism, beaurocracy, coercion, collectivism, communism, freedom, government, libertarian
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to sur...
Thomas Sowell
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freedom, government, aggression, anarcho capitalism, anarchy, ancap, capitalism, censorship, coercion, just