All Benjamin Tucker Quotes
- Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end… Anarchism
- The right of the majority is absolute. Absolute
- Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism Capitalism
- Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up. Blow
- The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one… Anarchism
- Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all. All
- First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of… Affair
- Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and… Alike
- And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming… Act
- The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority. Anarchist
- If I go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men… All
- We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth. Any
- The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a… Abolition
- In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep… Anarchist
- The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one… Anarchism
- It is not competition, but monopoly, that deprives labor of its product. Destroy the banking monopoly, establish freedom in finance, and down will go interest… Banking
- It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was perhaps the most… All
- The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth… Acceptance
- The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. Attempt
- The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. Area