734 Quotes About Force
- Author Friedrich Hayek
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Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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- Author Morris Tannehill
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Not only is democracy mystical nonsense, it is also immoral. If one man has no right to impose his wishes on another, then ten million men have no right to impose their wishes on the one, since the initiation of force is wrong (and the assent of even the most overwhelming majority can never make it morally permissible). Opinions—even majority opinions—neither create truth nor alter facts. A lynch mob is democracy in action. So much for mob rule.
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- Author Murray N. Rothbard
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While liberals are in favor of any sexual activity engaged in by two consenting adults, when these consenting adults engage in trade or exchange, the liberals step in to harass, cripple, restrict, or prohibit that trade. And yet both the consenting sexual activity and the trade are similar expressions of liberty in action.
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- Author Murray N. Rothbard
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The very term ‘public utility’ … is an absurd one. Every good is useful ‘to the public,’ and almost every good … may be considered ‘necessary.’ Any designation of a few industries as ‘public utilities’ is completely arbitrary and unjustified.
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- Author Lysander Spooner
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The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.
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- Author Stefan Molyneux
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History is the same story with different costumes.
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- Author Bryant McGill
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Love surrounds, softens and tires violence and force.
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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Faith is the force of action.
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- Author murray rothbard
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It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.
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