“The capacity to resist coercion stems partly from the individual's identification with a group.”
Section 45, Ch. 13 Factors Promoting Self-sacrifice
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
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Source: "Overcoming resistance to change." 1948, p. 520
"Letter From Washington," http://www.panarchy.org/hess/libertarianism.html The Libertarian Forum 1, no. 6 http://web.archive.org/web/20071201123614/http://mises.org/journals/lf/1969/1969_06_15.pdf (15 June 1969), p. 2

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Why Government Doesn't Work (1995)

Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 82

“What 's done we partly may compute,
But know not what 's resisted.”
Address to the Unco Guid.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)