203 Quotes About Coercion
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- Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.
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- Author Alexis de Tocqueville
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It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.
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- Author Thomas Sowell
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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- Author Frédéric Bastiat
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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
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- Author Judith Lewis Herman
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... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.
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- Author Larken Rose
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Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.
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- Author Larken Rose
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A cop's JOB is to violently enforce upon the rest of us whatever arbitrary bullshit the political parasites declare to be "law." It is, therefore, impossible to be a "law enforcer" and behave morally, for the same reason one can't be a moral car-jacker.
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- Author Ludwig von Mises
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Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.
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- Author Murray N. Rothbard
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It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
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