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“But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.”

Children Self Age Waiting Creative Degrees Unique Abuse Shame Depth Neglect Buried True Self Rebellious Coercion Daydreaming

Book:Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

“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.”

Reality Government Political Individual Belief Force Ethics Instruments Altruism Coercion

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.”

Government Father Common Attributes Founding Coercion Our Founding Fathers

Author:Philip K. Howard

“If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality.”

Source: Private Rights and Public Illusions

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.”

“Ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.”

May States Prove Mouths Evidence Guilt Accused Coercion Prove It Secured

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation.”

Government Productions Efficiency Coercion Subsidies Inefficiency Subservience

Book:Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition

Source: Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition

“Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind were the product of a spontaneous effort on the part of individuals; government substitutes coercion for voluntary action.”

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.”

Exercise Inevitable Coercion

Author:Anders Chydenius

“One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.”

Mean Form Courses Natural Civilization Understood Difficulty Majority Assuming Possession Determined Impression Minorities Imperfection Inherent Coercion Resisting

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want.”

Want Done Government Politics Fine Taxes Capable Caring Jail Bully Coercion Things Done

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.”

Politics Taxes Wide Continents Coercion Mandates Tissues Top Down

Author:George Will

“Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.”

World Way Humans Art Joy Literature Human Beings Grief Skills Proof Propaganda Dimensions Delusion Our World Powerless Coercion Obstinate

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

People Ideas University Mediums Coercion

Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti

“Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.”

Men Long Whole Might Ethics Absence Surprising Considering Coercion Breadwinner Surprising Things

Book:The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment

Source: The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment

“All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.”

Desire Slavery Slave Socialism Labour Coercion

Book:The Man versus the State: Great Essays

Source: The Man versus the State: Great Essays

“Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.”

Slavery Slave Cowardice Coercion Servitude

Author:Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

“As long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if even meaningful.”

Ifs Long Individual Roles Democracy Willing Elements Tools Productions Meaningful Oppression Compelled Coercion

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that persuasion is far more powerful than coercion when it comes to promoting one's religious views. . . . Not surprisingly, then, large numbers of religious leaders have supported the Supreme Court in its prayer decisions.”

Source: Finding time & other delicacies

“I believe it is urgent to begin now, before we are constrained by a totally controlled society monitoring limited resources on the planet. Now is the time to establish our extraterrestrial base in freedom; later it may be under the coercion of necessity.”

Believe May I Believe Space Planets Resources Controlled Urgent Coercion Monitoring Extraterrestrial Limited Resources Controlled Society

Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard

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