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“There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.”

Should Mind Children Doe Play Body Form Teaching Exercise Lessons Elements Slavery Harm Your Children Compulsion Epistemology Pedagogy

Author:Plato

“As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.”

Giving Ideas Seems Form Mother Choices Son Grew Grew Up Slavery Salvation Feminist Compulsion Grind

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many things you do because you reluctantly feel you should or must? Watch closely. Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.”

Ifs Want Feels Should Mind Looks Action Watches Example Slavery Crowds Refuse Reactions Daring Compelled Compulsion Action And Reaction

Author:Vernon Howard

“What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.”

Action Liberty Principles Economic Essentials Slavery Libertarian Crucial Libertarianism Versus Compulsion Coercion Differentiate

Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.”

People Has Beens States Liberty Accepting Democracy Slavery Libertarian Libertarianism Compulsion Rationale

Author:Joseph Sobran

“No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.”

Men Memories Study Ought Slavery Remains Rooted Plato Compulsion Pursued Good Memories

Book:The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan

Source: The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan

“In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.”

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.”

Humans Looks Heart Hands Care Past Spiritual Break Despair Eternal Slavery Misery Mortals Twilight Distress Human Heart Compulsion Disgrace Conqueror Heart Break

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf