Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics. — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults. — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Some communities will be abandoned, others will struggle along, others will split, others will flourish, gain members, and be duplicated elsewhere. Each community must win and hold the voluntary adherence of its members. No pattern is imposed on everyone, and the result will be one pattern if and only if everyone voluntarily chooses to live in accordance with that pattern… — Robert Nozick Copy Share
Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone? — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
“There are few books that set out what a mature person can believe - someone fully grown up, I mean. Aristotle's 'Ethics', Marcus Aurelius's 'Meditations', Montaigne's 'Essays', and the essays of Samuel Johnson come to mind. Even with these, we do not simply accept everything that is said. The author's voice is never our own, exactly; the author's life is… — Robert Nozick Copy Share
Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people, the ones with the highest merit, and that society should reward people in accordance with their… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth. — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not just knowing fundamental truths, if these are unconnected with the guidance of life or with a perspective on its meaning. If the deep truths physicists describe about the origin and functioning of the universe have little practical import and do not change our picture of the meaning of the universe and our place within it, then knowing… — Robert Nozick Copy Share
You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied. — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults. — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
