There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
In a free system any large, popular, revolutionary movement should be able to bring about its ends by such a voluntary process.… — 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,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics. — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The history of philosophy is actually full of people who argue for rather wild and incredible views, and their reputations are based… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Utopia is a meta-utopia: the environment in which Utopian experiments may be tried out; the environment in which people are free to… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Whoever makes something having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process (transferring some of his holdings for… — 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… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
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
