"Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely……" — Albert J. Nock
"Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too."
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Albert J. Nock
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50 Quotes by Albert J. Nock
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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it…
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You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever…
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When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say,…
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It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the…
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When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our…
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The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition…
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It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of…
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The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them…
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As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it cannot even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to…
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The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the…
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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it…
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The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal…
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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At the beginning, ballet accounted for at least two hours out of six hours of my daily training session. Later…
— Unknown Author
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The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or…
— Thorstein Veblen
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My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they…
— George Whitefield
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be…
— Frederick Soddy
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Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and…
— Wendell Berry
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The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs…
— Alexander Hamilton
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[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we…
— David Attenborough
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation. .…
— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
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