Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified, but any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials… — 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
