Quotes About Coercion

The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

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

The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.

Government planning always involves compulsion.

Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily will do what the tyrants think they should do.

Government is a gang of thieves writ large.

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.

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.

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.

Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind will ever light the fires of fear, coercion, or angry division.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.

The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go.

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.

No being has the right to say to another, "Do this, or I will hurt you".