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Albert J. Nock has 49 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.
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A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a…
— Edgar Degas
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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…
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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the…
— Ovid
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It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me…
— David Hume
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But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the…
— David Hume
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A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
— Aphra Behn
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Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Even knaves may be made good for something.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far…
— James Russell Lowell
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