"There are two methods, or means, and only……" — Albert J. Nock
"There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. Â One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. Â The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means."
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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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But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge,…
— Arthur Balfour
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Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the…
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
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I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation…
— Grover Cleveland
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No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates…
— Mikhail Bakhtin
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Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking…
— Ansel Adams
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Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist…
— Bell Hooks
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Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the…
— Geoff Nicholson
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I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for…
— Franz Oppenheimer
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Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.
— Eliot Weinberger
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