Common enemy Quote by Albert Jay Nock

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…

— Albert J. Nock

“Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness...”

— Albert Camus

“Each land in the world produces its own men individually bad - and, in time, other bad men who kill them for the greater…

— Emerson Hough

“Although the definition of an 'enemy of the state' changed over time, the mechanisms to deal with these enemies were put in place right…

— Anne Applebaum

“Where will it all end? In the destruction of all other command for the benefit of one alone - that of the state. In…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

“It’s necessary that everyone does his duty and works in his place - devotes himself to constructing a body of fundamental values - against…

— Guillaume Faye

“Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government.”

— Thomas Paine

“Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. And he who…

— Aristotle

“The laying of a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof…

— Thomas Paine

“Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions: they want to be led, and they wish to remain free. As they cannot destroy…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any…

— John Stuart Mill

“When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.”

— Ayn Rand