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Social Quotes by Albert J. Nock
- The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to…
- The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a…
- The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but…
- It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its…
- Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it…
- The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The State…
- I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident,…
- The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation-th at is to…
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