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- Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of…
- One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the…
- The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no…
- There is no freedom that I would grant to any man that I would refuse to woman, and there is no freedom that I would…
- If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
- Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He…
- He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is…
- Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion,…
- This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle