“I have no right to coerce someone else, because I cannot be sure that I'm right and he is wrong.”
"Say 'No' to Intolerance", Liberty magazine, vol. 4, no. 6, (July 1991) pp. 17-20.
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American economist, statistician, and writer 1912–2006Related quotes

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
Source: Crime and Punishment (Zločin a trest)

“Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”
Source: Handle with Care

“A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.”

“It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.”

“His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.”
On the Death of Crashaw; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, He can't be wrong whose life is in the right", Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, epilogue iii, line 303.