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“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.” quote by Albert J. Nock — Download Open image

“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.”

Albert J. Nock

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The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably…

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When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.

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The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be…

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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,…

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The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.

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Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political…

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By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for…

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It is certainly true that whatever a man may do or say, the most significant thing about him is what he thinks; and significant…

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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated…

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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 it not only as a final and indispensable entity, but also as, in the main, beneficent. The mass-man, ignorant of its history, regards its character and intentions as social rather than anti-social; and in that faith…

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