Business Quote by Albert J. Nock

Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life,…

— Albert J. Nock

The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that…

— Albert J. Nock

“The state, rather, is a parasitic institution that lives off the wealth of its subjects, concealing its anti-social, predatory nature beneath a public-interest veneer.”

— Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

— Bertrand Russell

The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's…

— Murray Bookchin

The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private…

— Albert J. Nock

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.

— Boris Sidis

“We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes…

— Murray N. Rothbard

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its…

— Benito Mussolini

The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“When a newly acquired State has been accustomed, as I have said, to live under its own laws and in freedom, there are three…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Crime is a pity of self-will

— Anonymous