The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life,… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that whatever a man may do or say, the most significant thing about him is what he thinks; and significant… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
