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“Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it.”

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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There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of…

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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 State is precisely what his attitude was toward the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500. It does not appear to have occurred to the Church-citizen of that day, any more than it occurs to the State-citizen of…

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What's that smell?" I froze. What? Did I really smell so distasteful he had only to lean in my direction to catch a putrid whiff of me? I stayed the urge to break his freaking nose for pointing out my stinkiness. He sniffed again. "I can't place it." "How bad is it?" I asked, my cheeks heating. "It's good. Some…

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Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us personally. Some children will make poor choices just as some adults do in smoking and drinking to excess. When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children…

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