Compulsion Quotes - Page 16

• Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

  Plato

  Leadership, Sports, Use

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• Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom. Where there is no market economy, the best-intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Government, Law

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy)

  Oliver Sacks

  Years, Two Year Olds, People

  Oliver Sacks (2007). “Vintage Sacks”, p.116, Vintage

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