Tibor R. Machan: Force

Tibor R. Machan was Hungarian-American philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on force.

Tibor R. Machan: 26 quotes0 likes

“If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality.”

Tibor R. Machan

Source: Private Rights and Public Illusions (1994), p. 81

“While individualism was once widely hailed in Britain and especially the United States, today it is deemed amoral and heartless. The individualist viewpoint is unable to promise honestly that everyone will eventually be completely well-off. Critics find this defeatist and insist that ‘we must do better’ while calling upon the forces of the state to see that we do.”

Tibor R. Machan

Source: Private Rights and Public Illusions (1994), p. 67

“[C]oercive human interactions [are] destructive, even where the coercion is urged from honorable motives, and advocates confining the use of physical force in human relations to instances of the administration of justice understood as the protection and maintenance of individual (negative) human rights.”

Tibor R. Machan

Source: Private Rights and Public Illusions (1994), p. xvi