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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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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the…
— William Bartram
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To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you,…
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Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
— Thomas Aquinas
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For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who…
— Barbara Jordan
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The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
— Albert Einstein
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One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.
— Thomas Paine
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree…
— Samuel Johnson
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Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of life an…
— Rajneesh
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