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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no…
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You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you…
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When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in…
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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…
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When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for…
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The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit…
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It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a…
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The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one…
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As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it cannot even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime,…
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The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of…
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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no…
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The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It…
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It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they…
— H. L. Mencken
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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…
— Albert J. Nock
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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.
— James M. Barrie
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Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'
— Kumi Naidoo
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The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
— H. L. Mencken
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The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
— Sydney J. Harris
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Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.
— T.H. White
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