“All the power [the State] has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext… — Albert Jay 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 Jay Nock Copy Share Image
“To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. —AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT.” — Albert Jay Nock Copy Share Image
“I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism,… — Albert Jay Nock Copy Share Image
“American society is the only one which has passed directly from barbarism into decadence without once knowing civilisation.” — Albert Jay Nock Copy Share Image
“All the power [the State] has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another;… — Albert Jay Nock Copy Share Image
“Courts. To be seen as you would see the Tower of London or menagerie of Versailles with their lions, tigers, hyænas, and other beasts… — Albert Jay Nock Copy Share Image
“In literature one has the best company in the world at complete command; one also has the worst. One has a social conscience which… — Albert Jay Nock Copy Share Image
“In the last generation, this country produced one of the most eminent men of science in the whole world. His name was quite unknown… — Albert Jay Nock Copy Share Image
![“All the power [the State] has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another; there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure, leaves society with so much less power.” quote by Albert Jay Nock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a77/albert-jay-nock-45459_power_all-the-power-the-state-has-is-what-soci_2572716.jpg)
