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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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There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the…
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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked…
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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced…
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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
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The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and…
— Leo Tolstoy
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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured,…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that…
— Frederick The Great
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It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that…
— Frederick The Great
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There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take…
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Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely, if we can't get the Maliki government to include…
— Adam Schiff
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