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State Quotes by Albert J. Nock
- 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…
- You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State…
- It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his…
- When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and…
- 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…
- It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized…
- 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…
- As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it cannot even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to…
- 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…
- The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft,…
- If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it…
- 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…
- Taking the state wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators, and…
- Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in…
- 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…
- 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…
- The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in…
More State Quotes
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila