Coercion Quotes

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the un...

On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a...

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society promotes our happiness p...

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to ...

Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the le...

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on th...

It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who...

The ethics of psychiatric therapy is the very negation of the ethics of political liberty. The forme...

The medical profession's classic prescription for coping with such predicaments, Primum non nocere (...

It is mainly by resisting authority that the individual defines himself. This is why authorities--wh...

The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much a...

The fatal weakness of most psychiatric historiographies lies in the historians' failure to give suff...

Honoring the value of competence and steadfastness requires a generosity of spirit and a curbing of ...

A vast amount of psychiatric effort has been, and continues to be, devoted to legal and quasi-legal ...

Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see re...

What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced socie...

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. Th...

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health car...

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the sur...

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men f...

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state do...

When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such d...

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from...

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting b...

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they...

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanctio...

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude...

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

Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those peo...

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and ...

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its m...

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they cre...

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from bei...

Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more selle...

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiati...

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a ...

A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, ...

In a covenant...among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private p...

There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The s...

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

Government programs didn’t arise because the people demanded them or because the free market was una...

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of soc...

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in brin...

For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers...

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it the...

If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive ...

I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve...

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exe...

The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,...

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and t...

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization ...

What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologie...

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it ...

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it ...

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism an...

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is o...

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his...

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not d...

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

A libertarian is somebody who believes, of course, in personal liberty. And liberty is a personal th...

The idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Govern...

It must be remembered that a vast majority of mankind’s history has been spent living under the rule...

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the st...

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and th...