Forced Compliance Quotes

There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom, for in that way one captures volition itself.

Move on over or we'll move on over you.

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.

You can't try to keep someone against their will, or it's difficult to get them to listen or have the right mentality.

The word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Great innovations should not be forced on a slender majority

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

By its nature, governments and taxes are not voluntary. Government actions are violent and coercive, and theft as well.

No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument — the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up, you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American

Dictatorship: A system of government where everything that isn't forbidden is obligatory.

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

Civilized men do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains....

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people, ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy.

Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.

When you have to pass a law to make a man let me have a house, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me go to school, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me walk down the street, you have to enforce that law and you'd have to be living actually in a police state. It would take a police state in this country.

We are now an occupied territory. Evidence of the naked force of the federal government is here apparent in these unsheathed bayonets in the backs of schoolgirls.

They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.

A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.

You agreed with the Dear Leader or you died or ended up in Camp 913.

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

There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.

When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.

An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition.

I didn't confess. I was interrogated. They acted like my answers were wrong. They told me I was wrong, that I didn't remember correctly, that I had to remember correctly. And if I didn't, I would never see my family.