The Tyranny of Good-Intentions

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"Probably more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out evil than by men intent on doing evil." ~Frederick Hayek

"The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes." ~Thomas Paine

"There's no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he doesn't want merely because you think it would be good for him." ~Robert Heinlein

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." ~C. S. Lewis